Eric Nathaniel Mack – Felt

FELT, prima personale dell’artista americano Eric Nathaniel Mack allestita a Torino nella galleria di Via Mottalciata.

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Eric Nathaniel Mack
FELT
20 febbraio - 29 aprile 2023

La Galleria Franco Noero è felice di annunciare FELT, prima personale dell’artista americano Eric Nathaniel Mack allestita a Torino nella galleria di Via Mottalciata.
Il lavoro di Mack varia dalla scultura all'installazione, dalle opere a parete ai lavori su carta. La sua estetica prevede un particolare tipo di tattilità e di utilizzo di oggetti comuni, con particolare attenzione a quelli legati all'abbigliamento. Elementi ready-made, quali indumenti, coperte, pannelli forati, pagine di riviste e occhielli, si ricompongono e si trasformano attraverso l'uso di pittura acrilica e di tinture. Il linguaggio visivo di Eric Nathaniel Mack parla attraverso questi materiali, così come attraverso il colore e la consistenza, la percezione e la fluidità. Le sue opere si dispiegano e si muovono, rese vive da una gamma di tonalità, da forme irregolari e da una narrazione poetica. I riferimenti all'industria della moda e alla figura conferiscono una qualità seducente, riferendosi all'identità o a una narrazione fatta di materiale desiderio e intenzione.

Eric Nathaniel Mack (1987, Columbia, MD) vive e lavora a New York.
Ha conseguito il BFA presso la Cooper Union, New York, USA, e il MFA presso la Yale University, New Haven, USA. Nel 2017, Mack è stato il vincitore del primo BALTIC Artists' Award, selezionato dall'artista Lorna Simpson, e ha completato la Rauschenberg Residency a Captiva Island, Florida, e una residenza d'artista presso la Delfina Foundation a Londra, Regno Unito.
Tra le mostre personali istituzionali ricordiamo Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (2019); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, USA (2019); il BALTIC Artists' Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Regno Unito (2017); e Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (2017). Tra le sue prossime mostre Chronorama / Chronorama Redux, curata da Matthieu Humery, a Palazzo Grassi a Venezia nel marzo 2023. Tra le principali mostre collettive ricordiamo la Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Svizzera (2017); In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA (2017); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, USA (2017); Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, Londra, Regno Unito (2016); e Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA (2015). Le opere di Mack sono presenti nelle collezioni permanenti della Albright-Knox Art Gallery, dello Studio Museum di Harlem e del Whitney Museum of American Art.

Eric Nathaniel Mack
FELT
20 February - 29 April 2023

Galleria Franco Noero is pleased to announce FELT, the first solo exhibition of American artist Eric Nathaniel Mack to be held in Turin in the spaces of Via Mottalciata.

Mack’s work varies from sculpture and installation, to wall pieces and work on paper. His aesthetic involves a particular type of tactility and usage of common items, primarily those related to clothing. Readymade elements, such as garments, blankets, pegboards, magazine pages, and grommets, recompose and transmute via usage of mediums like acrylic paint and dye. Eric Nathaniel Mack’s visual language speaks through these materials, as well as through color and texture, optics and flux. His works flow and shift, alive with a spectrum of hues, irregular shapes, and poetic drama. References to the fashion industry and the figure impart a seductive quality, connecting to identity or a material fiction of desire and intention.

Eric Nathaniel Mack (1987, Columbia, MD) lives and works in New York.

He received his BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, USA and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, USA In 2017, Mack was the recipient of the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award selected by artist Lorna Simpson and completed the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva Island, FL and an artist-in-residency at Delfina Foundation in London, United Kingdom.
Institutional solo exhibitions include Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (2019); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, USA (2019); The BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (2017); and Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (2017). Among his upcoming exhibitions, CHRONORAMA curated by Matthieu Humery at Palazzo Grassi in Venice in March 2023. Major group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2017); In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA (2017); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, USA (2017); Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom (2016); and Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA (2015). Mack’s work is in the permanent collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whitney Museum of American Art.