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Basement Roma is pleased to announce Life’s a bite, the first solo exhibition by Ryan Gander in Rome.
The exhibition contributes to Basement Roma’s experimental programming which, since 2012, has invited artists to conceive and present new work, and to rethink the format of solo exhibitions.
Life’s a bite is, in part, a response to site and place—both architecturally and conceptually—yet it also points beyond the confines of the gallery to speak pervasively of contemporary anxieties regarding our existence. The exhibition introduces a set of newly created artworks and includes the latest use of animatronics in Gander’s oeuvre, which so far has featured to enliven simulacrum sculptural works of a gorilla and mice, and to stir a caricature rendition of himself as a puppet.
Treating Basement Roma as a stage, Gander has transposed the staff’s working office into the large gallery space which is presented during the exhibition for public view. Else-…
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Basement Roma is pleased to announce Life’s a bite, the first solo exhibition by Ryan Gander in Rome.
The exhibition contributes to Basement Roma’s experimental programming which, since 2012, has invited artists to conceive and present new work, and to rethink the format of solo exhibitions.
Life’s a bite is, in part, a response to site and place—both architecturally and conceptually—yet it also points beyond the confines of the gallery to speak pervasively of contemporary anxieties regarding our existence. The exhibition introduces a set of newly created artworks and includes the latest use of animatronics in Gander’s oeuvre, which so far has featured to enliven simulacrum sculptural works of a gorilla and mice, and to stir a caricature rendition of himself as a puppet.
Treating Basement Roma as a stage, Gander has transposed the staff’s working office into the large gallery space which is presented during the exhibition for public view. Else-…
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