D-Segni (D-signs)

During 2004, the Year of the Woman at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, four solo exhibitions of drawings by Italian and international artists will be organised. The project will be curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and called D-segni (D-signs). Each exhibition will last a month and will be held in the project room at the centre for contemporary art in Turin.

With these four exhibitions, the Fondazione hopes to highlight the importance of drawing as a contemporary means of artistic expression that, like many other techniques, has surpassed its original definition. The visitor will have the chance to see and compare the work of four contemporary artists who share the same medium but greatly differ in technique, size, theme and representation.

The American artist Marguerite Kahrl’s drawings are somewhere between real-life and cartoon, which evokes a kind of eco-friendly world where man and nature harmoniously live to maximise their resources instead of destroying them. The Roman artist Micol Assael combines absence and existence in her work: heavy black lines and marks invade, or better still, attack the pages of a science book transforming the space of each page, in the same way that art invades the world of science and the physical space of things...

The video work and drawings of the Japanese artist Tabaimo explore social and cultural issues in Japan today and ironically play with stereotype characters and traditions from her country. The relationship between a place, our memories, our imagination and our sense of disorientation are the themes explored by the Icelandic artist Katrin Siguardardottir. Her towns make us feel lost and at the same time confused by familiar memories of a place that we are visiting for the first time.

A colour catalogue about all four shows, with text and interviews by Ilaria Bonacossa, will be available .

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D-Segni (D-signs)

15 January - 15 February Marguerite Karhl
19 February -14 March Micol Assael
18 March - 18 April Tabaimo 
22 April - 16 May Katrin Sigurdadottir