Bologna
MAGMA gallery and Vhils Studio are proud to announce the solo show “Portal”, a large-scale and immersive project by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils at the historical public venue Ex Chiesa di San Mattia in Bologna.
The use of doors has become prominent and recurring in the work of Portuguese visual artist, incorporating his experience with the urban environment.
Revealing how important it is for the artist to feed off the environment he is reflecting on, this new series of works features the portraits of Bologna’s inhabitants, portraying the lives and the people of the Italian city.
For Vhils, doors are portals. They are an opening into a collective psyche that explores contrasting ideas: ownership and freedom, seclusion and inclusion, permeability and impermeability. The doors that comprise the monumental installation here displayed were created during the height of the pandemic, a time disrupted by isolation, fear, solitude and an acute sense of curtailed freedom.
Due to the pandemic, for this exhibition, the artist was forced to deviate from his usual process of traveling, engaging with and photographing his subjects, relying only on the lens of a camera to create a connection. "Portal" thus creates a feeling of community with strangers, a contradiction that simultaneously encapsulates one of humanity’s greatest qualities: empathy.
Show moreFor Vhils, doors are portals. They are an opening into a collective psyche that explores contrasting ideas: ownership and freedom, seclusion and inclusion, permeability and impermeability. The doors that comprise the monumental installation here displayed were created during the height of the pandemic, a time disrupted by isolation, fear, solitude and an acute sense of curtailed freedom.
Due to the pandemic, for this exhibition, the artist was forced to deviate from his usual process of traveling, engaging with and photographing his subjects, relying only on the lens of a camera to create a connection. "Portal" thus creates a feeling of community with strangers, a contradiction that simultaneously encapsulates one of humanity’s greatest qualities: empathy.
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VHILS - Portal - Ex Chiesa di San Mattia
Via Sant'Isaia 14
40123 Bologna
Telephone: +393807675718
Email: info@magma.gallery
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Free
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- Art & Culture
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Tue - Fri: 15:30 - 19:00
Sat - Sun: 10:30 - 19:00
