Andrea Festa Fine Art is pleased to present Bittersweet Periferia, featuring Aisha Christison and Amedeo Polazzo, the gallery's first exhibition to feature a site-specific intervention.
On display, the latest works by the two artists, who share a specific processual technique, the underpainting or preparatory glazing, and an amateurish stylistic imprint, at times nostalgic and metaphysical. The duo exhibition includes small and medium-sized paintings that show settings with a peripheral and undefined character. If in Aisha Christison's work we recognize more domestic spaces, with dreamlike and childlike connotations, Amedeo Polazzo - who circulates some works through wall drawings, overflowing from the limits of the canvas - proposes horizons in which ancient elements are often superimposed on as many of an industrial nature. A common ground that frames each work in an intermediate, disorienting, liminal condition.
Amedeo Polazzo (1988, Starnberg, Germany) lives and works in London. Last exhibitions: 2022 - ‘Los Angeles’, Los Angeles, (Günsterode, Germany); Jahresgaben, Kunstverein (Munich); 2021 - Liberteen, Kavanagh building, (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Manta Ray, Materia gallery, (Rome); Un giorno a Casa, Smart Foundation, (Rome); We love art, ICS Seoul; ChangJiang Museum, (China) and MUAC, (Mexico); 2020 - Quadriennale d'Arte (Rome); 2019 - Chateau Shatto (Los Angeles); Prince of Wales (Munich); Kunstverein Arnsberg, Hypovereinsbank-Unicredit Collection (Munich).
Aisha Christison (1989, Margate, UK) lives and works in Brussels. Latest exhibitions: 2023 - Outline of an Island, Mauve, (Vienna); 2022 - Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, (online show); 2022 - Flora Fairbairn, (London, UK); 2021 - Damien and the Love Guru, (Brussels, Belgium); 2020 - Glass Houses, Mcbean’s Orchid Nursery, (Lewes, UK); The two of hearts, Group show curated by Jacopo Pagin, SB34, (Brussels, Belgium); 2019 - P12, (Brussels, Belgium); Dísir, TM Lighting Gallery, (London, UK); All in green went my love riding, Giardino della Zucchero, (Venice, Italy).