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Jumaldi Alfi “Never Ending Lesson” at Primo Marella Gallery, Milan

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Jumaldi Alfi, Melting Memories, Mooi Indie #02, 2012. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery

Jumaldi Alfi
Never Ending Lesson
16 May – 28 June 2013
at Primo Marella Gallery, Milan

Jumaldi Alfi (Indonesia, 1973) is mostly known for the compelling iconography of visual signs reflecting existential and spiritual experience on both an individual and collective level. Creating his own code of images, the artist draws on a wide scope of cultural references, from objects of the natural world, to Renaissance paintings, to the childhood memories of family life. The visual effect is at once mysterious and intimate.
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Riccardo Previdi “Broken Display” at Francesca Minini, Milan


Image courtesy the artist and Francesca Minini

Riccardo Previdi
Broken Display
15 November 2012 – 30 January 2013
at Francesca Minini, Milan

The English word display contains many meanings. As verb it means to show, exhibit, manifest and flaunt; as a noun: show, demonstration, exhibition, manifestation, and ostentation, among other things. Its origin is to be found in the words – first recorded between 1250 and 1300 – desplayen (from Middle English) and despleier (from Old French), which in turn derive from the Late Latin term displicāre, meaning to explain, to unfold.
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