FRAGMENTA

Elisabeth Scherffig, Felix Schramm,

Stefano Comensoli_Nicolò Colciago, Simona Andrioletti

curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone and Maria Villa

22 May - 12 July 2024

RIBOT is pleased to present Fragmenta, the first group exhibition hosted at the gallery. A project that includes Elisabeth Scherffig (Düsseldorf, 1949; lives and works in Milan), Felix Schramm (Hamburg, 1970; lives and works in Düsseldorf), Stefano Comensoli_Nicolò Colciago (Milan, 1990, Garbagnate Milanese, 1988; live and work in Milan); Simona Andrioletti (Bergamo, 1990; lives and works in Munich and Milan).



Fragmenta places in dialogue the works of a selected group of artists of different generations whose research is developed both around the idea of recovery and reworking in an operational and conceptual key of contemporary “finds” and abandoned scraps, and on the iconography of “detritus” and “rubble” understood as a symbol of precariousness, but also of transformation and metamorphosis. From this perspective, the theme of the “fragment” takes on primary value. This becomes a phenomenological element characterizing the works and at the same time an initial component from which to germinate a new and unprecedented unity. The additive process of sign or gesture—as well as of “materials”—is constant in each of the works on display and is a functional tool for the representation of an image poised between construction and destruction. The compositional act that is generated by the juxtaposition and reworking of pre-existing fragments or debris refers to a cyclical idea of time and memory, to a semantic and conceptual reactivation of matter and history.



Confronting the architecture and morphology of the exhibition space, where the large windows on the ground floor are subtle thresholds between inside and outside, the works exhibited in this first environment restore the atmosphere of a “construction site” (creative, cultural, social), a large choral workshop in ferment. Transitioning from the ground floor to the floor below, which is more intimate and characterized by an almost underground atmosphere, image, process, residue, and word thicken and layered in a more contained perimeter that proposes alternative techniques, processes, and languages with both private and militant gazes.