Tra emancipazione e storia. Il debutto europeo di Caitlin Cherry a Torino
Luce Gallery, Torino ‒ fino al 21 dicembre 2019. La prima personale di Caitlin Cherry in Europa, “Noisyboy”, affronta l’attualissimo tema dell’emancipazione femminile.
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Gli spazi eleganti di Luce Gallery accolgono con stile la grinta cromatica di Caitlin Cherry (Chicago, 1987), artista afroamericana la cui ricerca è caratterizzata da una particolare pratica pittorica che porta alla luce tematiche d’impronta storica quanto attuali.
I grandi formati, che strutturano il percorso, narrano di avvenenza e carattere castigati in limitanti preconcetti al maschile. Sono l’immagine di donne emancipate, riprese da riviste, video, social media come Tokyo Jetz, miss Mulatto o la modella Buffie the Body, le stesse donne che a oggi rappresentano da un lato la libera espressione del corpo e della femminilità, dall’altro l’oggetto del desiderio maschile. Nei lavori dell’artista tale desiderio prende forma attraverso lo snodarsi di pennellate veloci, per nulla definite e categoriche, che conferiscono corpo alle figure attraverso una visione distanziata del lavoro stesso. Sono donne nere con pantaloni in pelle, in pose ammiccanti, in auto di lusso, sono le stesse a dominare un mondo privo di uomini, le stesse che si frammentano in colori cangianti tra gli spacchi di monitor immaginari.
‒ Grazia Nuzzi
![Caitlin Cherry. Noisyboy. Exhibition view at Luce Gallery, Torino 2019. Photo Andrea Ferrari. Courtesy the artist & Luce Gallery](https://www.artribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Caitlin-Cherry.-Noisyboy.-Exhibition-view-at-Luce-Gallery-Torino-2019.-Photo-Andrea-Ferrari.-Courtesy-the-artist-Luce-Gallery-_8-768x512.jpg)
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![Caitlin Cherry, In Hindswipe, 2019. Courtesy l’artista e Luce Gallery, Torino](https://www.artribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Caitlin-Cherry-In-Hindswipe-2019.-Courtesy-l%E2%80%99artista-e-Luce-Gallery-Torino-768x766.jpg)
![Caitlin Cherry, Friends, 2019. Courtesy l’artista e Luce Gallery, Torino](https://www.artribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Caitlin-Cherry-Friends-2019.-Courtesy-l%E2%80%99artista-e-Luce-Gallery-Torino-768x768.jpg)
![Caitlin Cherry, Black Sun, 2019, particolare. Courtesy l’artista e Luce Gallery, Torino](https://www.artribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Caitlin-Cherry-Black-Sun-2019-particolare.-Courtesy-l%E2%80%99artista-e-Luce-Gallery-Torino-768x1024.jpg)
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