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A central point in Davide Hjort Di Fabio’s (b. 1990) work is the decorative ornamentation, which with its repetitive and sometimes highly simplified patterns can branch out and connect to other styles and periods in both art and art history. That Di Fabio has chosen this time to present his own video recordings and ceramic works side by side with photographic reprints by the Danish painter Niels Nedergaard (1944–1987), who more than anyone cultivated repetition and pattern, here the delicate impressions of carved Islamic doors and shutters on the wall of his own room in Cairo, is thus also a way for the artist to create new aesthetic connections and affiliations; a way of opening his work to other, perhaps surprising perspectives. Add to this the exhibition’s title, Zoom, which points in several directions: to go into depth, to tune in, to focus intensely, to shift from close-up to panorama, to step forward for others, to meet.
In a text titled Family Tree, Di Fabio has w…
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A central point in Davide Hjort Di Fabio’s (b. 1990) work is the decorative ornamentation, which with its repetitive and sometimes highly simplified patterns can branch out and connect to other styles and periods in both art and art history. That Di Fabio has chosen this time to present his own video recordings and ceramic works side by side with photographic reprints by the Danish painter Niels Nedergaard (1944–1987), who more than anyone cultivated repetition and pattern, here the delicate impressions of carved Islamic doors and shutters on the wall of his own room in Cairo, is thus also a way for the artist to create new aesthetic connections and affiliations; a way of opening his work to other, perhaps surprising perspectives. Add to this the exhibition’s title, Zoom, which points in several directions: to go into depth, to tune in, to focus intensely, to shift from close-up to panorama, to step forward for others, to meet.
In a text titled Family Tree, Di Fabio has w…
