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OFF-LYING show - 21st April - Gianluca Gimini + Trash.Been, by Tales Of Art on Apr 16, 2018 18:16:11 GMT 1,

Tales Of Art gallery is proud to invite you to the opening of “OFF-LYING”, on Saturday 21st April, at 5PM, a group show with Gianluca Gimini + artist collective Trash.Been.

OFF-LYING (in the unlikely event of our internet being cut off)
Off-lying, by definition, means situated off the shore, in a remote location.
if considered in relation to the world’s most relevant cities in the field of the arts, are the places of origin of all the participants to this show: both Gianluca Gimini, from Imola, Italy and the members of the Trash.Been collective (all five italian memebrs living inbetween the provinces of Rovigo and Vicenza). But the reason for this title also lies in the phonetic similarity (especially when pronounced with an Italian accent) of the expression “off-line”. The idea of this show came from gallery curator who asked Gimini and the Trash.Been to imagine bringing to real life the styles they use in their digital works.

Gianluca Gimini is a designer and professor with several exhibits on his records but still a designer who has never felt fit for the definition of “artist”. He is a millennial who graduated in 2008 and has stated in several occasions that having entered his work life at the very beginning of the global economic crisis is what most deeply influenced his idea of design.
In the recent years of recession the post-consumerist message has slowly sunken into his vision of the profession, orienting most of his research projects towards ideas and experimentations, which are surely related more to the field of product design than to those of graphic or figurative art, yet hardly ever are aimed at serial production or production at all, not even as prototypes. Velocipedia, above all, is the work to cite as an example of this approach. It is a collection of sketches made by memory by various people, a selection of which has been made into photo-realistic digital renderings. Velocipedia stigmatizes how faulty human memory is and at the same time how much beauty and creativity can spark from error driven designs, made in the attempt to complete an utterly non-creative task.
With his participation in Off-lying Gimini challenges himself to materially execute a series of designs that had originally been born inside a digital environment. Making these works tangible implied giving up on the interfaces that normally separate (and protect) a designer from a finished work, be it digital tools (when the work is produced as an image) or a combination of digital tools and third party
www.instagram.com/gianluca_gimini/

The collective Trash.Been was established in 2016 in Ferrara, Italy. Its members are Luca Filippi, Marco Franceschini, Alessio Gianella, Marcello Raffo and Nicolò Tromben. All five of them have a Bachelor’s degree in industrial design. Their prolific Instagram account gathers a rapidly growing number of original works, fully digital, in a style that they call “trash” with an obvious understatement. The Trash.Been do not think of themselves as artists but as a group of professional designers, nevertheless they have already taken part in various exhibitions, showcasing prints of their digital works. Trash.Been posters mash up fragments of pop culture and of so called trash culture with frequent references to retro technology and to early days internet, which they seem to celebrate as if it were a mythological creature from a past they were too young to experience. The visual language they use is a very personal mixture of “vaporwave”, “new ugly”, “glitch art” and serveral other styles. If they had a manifesto it would probably proclaim the refusal of any rule, but then again writing a manifesto seems an archaic idea for a collective like Trash.Been. It is by looking at the body of work in its entirety that one can grasp both a sense of unity and direction as much as a conspicuous degree of individuality upon closer inspection of the different projects.
With their participation in Off-lying the Trash.Been collective embarks on a journey outside Instagram and for the first time not limiting themselves to the display of printed images, but accepting the challenge of producing two series of cross-media works. With this experiment their individualities find new ways of manifesting themselves, having found an open field for the skills of the two former graffiti artists and the graphic illustrator of the group.
www.instagram.com/trash.been/

The show will run until 3rd June 2018.

For info and a preview of available works: info@talesofart.it

Tales Of Art gallery is proud to invite you to the opening of “OFF-LYING”, on Saturday 21st April, at 5PM, a group show with Gianluca Gimini + artist collective Trash.Been.

OFF-LYING (in the unlikely event of our internet being cut off)
Off-lying, by definition, means situated off the shore, in a remote location.
if considered in relation to the world’s most relevant cities in the field of the arts, are the places of origin of all the participants to this show: both Gianluca Gimini, from Imola, Italy and the members of the Trash.Been collective (all five italian memebrs living inbetween the provinces of Rovigo and Vicenza). But the reason for this title also lies in the phonetic similarity (especially when pronounced with an Italian accent) of the expression “off-line”. The idea of this show came from gallery curator who asked Gimini and the Trash.Been to imagine bringing to real life the styles they use in their digital works.

Gianluca Gimini is a designer and professor with several exhibits on his records but still a designer who has never felt fit for the definition of “artist”. He is a millennial who graduated in 2008 and has stated in several occasions that having entered his work life at the very beginning of the global economic crisis is what most deeply influenced his idea of design.
In the recent years of recession the post-consumerist message has slowly sunken into his vision of the profession, orienting most of his research projects towards ideas and experimentations, which are surely related more to the field of product design than to those of graphic or figurative art, yet hardly ever are aimed at serial production or production at all, not even as prototypes. Velocipedia, above all, is the work to cite as an example of this approach. It is a collection of sketches made by memory by various people, a selection of which has been made into photo-realistic digital renderings. Velocipedia stigmatizes how faulty human memory is and at the same time how much beauty and creativity can spark from error driven designs, made in the attempt to complete an utterly non-creative task.
With his participation in Off-lying Gimini challenges himself to materially execute a series of designs that had originally been born inside a digital environment. Making these works tangible implied giving up on the interfaces that normally separate (and protect) a designer from a finished work, be it digital tools (when the work is produced as an image) or a combination of digital tools and third party
www.instagram.com/gianluca_gimini/

The collective Trash.Been was established in 2016 in Ferrara, Italy. Its members are Luca Filippi, Marco Franceschini, Alessio Gianella, Marcello Raffo and Nicolò Tromben. All five of them have a Bachelor’s degree in industrial design. Their prolific Instagram account gathers a rapidly growing number of original works, fully digital, in a style that they call “trash” with an obvious understatement. The Trash.Been do not think of themselves as artists but as a group of professional designers, nevertheless they have already taken part in various exhibitions, showcasing prints of their digital works. Trash.Been posters mash up fragments of pop culture and of so called trash culture with frequent references to retro technology and to early days internet, which they seem to celebrate as if it were a mythological creature from a past they were too young to experience. The visual language they use is a very personal mixture of “vaporwave”, “new ugly”, “glitch art” and serveral other styles. If they had a manifesto it would probably proclaim the refusal of any rule, but then again writing a manifesto seems an archaic idea for a collective like Trash.Been. It is by looking at the body of work in its entirety that one can grasp both a sense of unity and direction as much as a conspicuous degree of individuality upon closer inspection of the different projects.
With their participation in Off-lying the Trash.Been collective embarks on a journey outside Instagram and for the first time not limiting themselves to the display of printed images, but accepting the challenge of producing two series of cross-media works. With this experiment their individualities find new ways of manifesting themselves, having found an open field for the skills of the two former graffiti artists and the graphic illustrator of the group.
www.instagram.com/trash.been/

The show will run until 3rd June 2018.

For info and a preview of available works: info@talesofart.it