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Evanescence …mannequins on show

New young talents from the Accademia Brera in Milan interpret the creations by Alain Leporati King Manichini

From November 30th to December 3rd, the Evanescence exhibition will be held at the Bottega Immagine in Via Carlo Farini 60 in Milan. Presented by Alain Leporati King Manichini, the show focuses on the works by students of the two-year photography course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Founded in 1989 by a young Alain Leporati, King Manichini is located in Carpi, in the province of Modena, in the heart of the knitwear district.Today it is theleader in its field and is recognizable in the world for the peculiar design and the high artistic content of its mannequins.

The focus on the artistic qualities and on the design of the mannequins by the Italian company founded in Modena in 1989 is now part of an important collaboration with the historic Milanese university.Curated by Luca Panaro, the title of the Evanescence exhibition derives from the high quality and refined range of mannequins with the same name that the company made available to the young creatives. As a matter of fact, the beauty of these mannequins, which incorporate the ideal of a sensual and at the same time ethereal femininity, is indeed evanescent, just as the scenarios and backgrounds in most of the works where the dummies appear cold and distant.

Using the languages of photography, video and installation, the young students reinterpreted the grace of the dummies, stripping them of their main function, namely to enhance the beauty of high fashion dresses. In the works by Alessandro Allegrini, Letizia Falini and Luca Scavone, for example, the mannequins are immersed in natural settings that are very characteristic and suggestive and yet indecipherable. Lorenzo Baroncelli and Irene Gittarelli photographed the mannequins in a bedroom and, more specifically in the case of Gittarelli, staging an amorous encounter. In the work by Anna Pfeiffer the inflexibility of the pre-set pose becomes the pretext for making a playful encounter between what is human and what is not. A disturbed and disordered representation produced using a scanner created by Ezio Roncelli where the humanoid figure is fragmented into a myriad of bodies. In other works, such as those by Marta Rizzato and Margarita Egorova with Elena Muresu, the photographic image is mixed with video filming and gives other possible scenarios to the dummies.In the backlit photographs by Vanessa Lopes and Chiara Parodi, the mannequins behave as if they were given the opportunity to desire and to indulge in the luxury of small daily pleasures.

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