Visual Art Exhibition
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| Dates | 11 Sep - 20 Nov 2009 |
| Times | Mon-Thurs 10am-8pm |
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Fri-Sat 10am-5pm |
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Sun 10am-2pm |
| Tickets | Free admission |
| Booking | Drop in |
The exhibition programme at Siobhan Davies Studios continues this autumn with the work of installation artist Ludovica Gioscia, who presents a flamboyant sculptural work entitled Mikado.
Gioscia who is best known for using wallpaper in her work has made Mikado from screen printed wallpaper, sculpted into head like shapes and adorned by jewellery and hairpieces. They are then mounted on wooden poles, which in turn are displayed in a falling motion.
Mikado is the name of a 19th century parlour game, later known as Pick-Up Sticks. It is also the title of Gilbert and Sullivan's popular comic opera, and Gioscia references both the game and the opera in the work. Using a hybrid iconography of mixed references to the baroque, 19th century exoticism, pop art and graphics from Disney to Nu-Rave, Gioscia makes what she calls 'campscapes', celebrating and criticizing the visual language of opulence.
Accompanying the sculptures is a triptych of collages with titles referring to the female characters of the opera, Yum Yum, Pitti Sing and Peep Bo. Baroque fashion illustrations obscure the faces of contemporary models. Beyond merging historical and contemporary imagery, the work also reminds of the surrealist representation of women as fetishised muses.
Ludovica Gioscia works across many different media, from installations to drawings as well as animation. For Mikado she draws on all these different techniques in her own unique and contemporary style.
Artist in Conversation
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| Date | Fri 30 Oct 2009, 7-8.30pm |
| Tickets | Free admission |
| Booking | Required, 020 7091 9650 |
Ludovica Gioscia talks to Michele Robecchi (editor for contemporary art at Phaidon Press) about her work and exhibition.
About the Artist
Ludovica Gioscia was born in Rome in 1977 and lives and works in London. After her Siobhan Davies Studios show she presents a new solo exhibition at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and a wallpaper installation at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona in 2010. She has previously shown at The Agency, London and Sarah Tecchia Roma in New York, as well as at the South London Gallery, Jerwood Space, Wax in Budapest and MNAC in Bucharest. Find out more on her website.
