Grammatiche Terrestri – Milan, November 2022

MyMicroGallery, Milan · 16 November – 8 December 2022

In November 2022 I took part in Grammatiche Terrestri (Terrestrial Grammar), a group exhibition of eleven artists curated by Stefania Carrozzini at MyMicroGallery in Milan. It was my first exhibition with Stefania.

I travelled to Milan for the opening on Wednesday 16 November. The exhibition then moved to Stefania’s gallery on the Giudecca in Venice in February 2023, where I showed again.

I showed two paintings from The Blue Pearl Series, Blue Pearl II – BP12, with its deep blue centre, and Blue Pearl II – BP13, a soft lilac centre on grey-green. The paintings were not made for the exhibition; rather, the themes of the series, spirituality and the interconnectedness of all things, sit naturally alongside Stefania’s idea of a terrestrial grammar, in which nothing in nature is truly separate.

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Stefania’s curatorial text contrasts two ways of describing the earth. One is the rational grammar of maps and satellite images; the other is the grammar of art, in which places, physical and inner, become part of our emotional and spiritual life. The exhibition explored the city, the landscape, borders and the experience of living on the planet, and closed with Joseph Beuys’s hope that “human being and nature with a united soul will build a new world”.

Exhibition details
Grammatiche Terrestri / Terrestrial Grammar
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini
MyMicroGallery, Via Giovanni Boccaccio 24, Milan
16 November – 8 December 2022 (opening Wednesday 16 November)
With Murielle Argoud, Stephanie Chambers, Frances Clarke, Bonnie Eisen, Grazia Gabbini, Akshita Gandhi, Latana, Maurizio Pini, Karen Schory, Marcello Sestito and Vincenzo Torcello