Runo Lagomarsino
Language, geography, historiography are themes that Lagomarsino revisits in his artistc practice, using materials that often evoke memories or a relationship to something, only to ask us to reflect on the conditions enabling these connections.
Lagomarsino’s work points toward the gaps and cracks in our explanation models highlighting language’s precarious foundation. With precise and poetic displacements, the constructs frictions, fractures of blind spots from where to tell other stories. Keenly aware of the conceptual implications of a range of materials and medium, Lagomarsino moves seamlessy between collage, drawing, installation, performance, and video.
Recent solo exhibitions:
The Square Between the Walls, Lunds Konsthall (2021), The Faculty of Seeing, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019), We are each other’s air, Francesca Minini, Milan (2019), EntreMundos, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2018), La Neblina, Galeria Avenida da India, Lisbon (2018).
Selected group exhibitions:
Ninguém teria acreditado, Pina Estação, Sao Paulo 2021, Deep Sounding-Hystory as Multiple Narratives, daadgalerie Berlin (2019), BRAZIL. Knife in the Flesh, PAC, Milan (2018), A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, (2017), La Terra Inquieta, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano (2017), Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2014) and Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014).
He also partecipated in the Guangzhou Triennial and the Gwangju Biennial (both 2008); the Venice Biennale (2011 and 2015); the Istanbul Biennial (2011); the São Paulo Art Biennial (2012); Prospect New Orleans (2017); the Gothenburg Biennial (2015 and 2021) and the Ural Biennial (2021). In 2019 he was awarded the Friends of Modern Museet Sculpture Prize and was DAAD artist in residence in Berlin.
Language, geography, historiography are themes that Lagomarsino revisits in his artistc practice, using materials that often evoke memories or a relationship to something, only to ask us to reflect on the conditions enabling these connections.
Lagomarsino’s work points toward the gaps and cracks in our explanation models highlighting language’s precarious foundation. With precise and poetic displacements, the constructs frictions, fractures of blind spots from where to tell other stories. Keenly aware of the conceptual implications of a range of materials and medium, Lagomarsino moves seamlessy between collage, drawing, installation, performance, and video.
Recent solo exhibitions:
The Square Between the Walls, Lunds Konsthall (2021), The Faculty of Seeing, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019), We are each other’s air, Francesca Minini, Milan (2019), EntreMundos, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2018), La Neblina, Galeria Avenida da India, Lisbon (2018).
Selected group exhibitions:
Ninguém teria acreditado, Pina Estação, Sao Paulo 2021, Deep Sounding-Hystory as Multiple Narratives, daadgalerie Berlin (2019), BRAZIL. Knife in the Flesh, PAC, Milan (2018), A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, (2017), La Terra Inquieta, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano (2017), Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2014) and Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014).
He also partecipated in the Guangzhou Triennial and the Gwangju Biennial (both 2008); the Venice Biennale (2011 and 2015); the Istanbul Biennial (2011); the São Paulo Art Biennial (2012); Prospect New Orleans (2017); the Gothenburg Biennial (2015 and 2021) and the Ural Biennial (2021). In 2019 he was awarded the Friends of Modern Museet Sculpture Prize and was DAAD artist in residence in Berlin.
- We, 2017nails, steel
200×286,5×4,5 cm
Edition 1/3 - America I use your name in vain, 201916 mm film transferred to HD with sound, 3,12 min, 125 coins
Edition 1/3 - The Infernal Circles, 2019125 One Real coins, metal
67×65×2,6 cm
Edition 1/3 - Air d’exil (we smoke for the dead, we store for the dead, but they are not dead), 201920 hand blown glass globes containing smoke from Argentinian Jockey Club 1976
105×105×22,5 cm - Jockey Club, 2019smoked packet of cigarettes
- Deportation Regime, 2015Enamel
15×70 cm
Edition 1/3 - West Is Everywhere you Look, 20169 maps, motors, cables and wires
Variable dimensions - All is not well, 2012ink on paper
42×59 cm - Untitled, 2012graphite and ink on paper
50×65 cm - Europe, 2012graphite and ink on paper
50×65 cm - Entre la playa y el cielo Between the shore and the sky, 2016wall painting and ink stamp
- We suffer from a desease that only gold can cure, 2017laser print on wood
Site specific
Edition 1/5 - The teacher, 2017Inkjet on plywood
140×105×1,5 cm
Edition 2/3 - AmericAmnesia, 2017neon sign
26,5×315 cm
Edition 1/3 - Untitled, 2018collage on paper
34×43 cm
framed
Edition unique - Untitled, 2018collage on paper
42,5×52,5 cm
framed
Edition unique - When Gold Was a King, 2018postcard and gold silkscreen on glass
140×110 cm - El hambre no es subversivo, 202022 burned parchment paper framed
38×33 cm
each