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Riccardo Previdi studied Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan as well as Visual Arts at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milan. These two different studies led him to an interest in the relationship between art and project.
His artistic research questions the possibilities and limits of technological and scientific thought, exposing the complex mechanisms that lie behind the objects and images that surround us in everyday life. By recording, sometimes amplifying, the images produced in excess by our society, the work of Riccardo Previdi wants to raise questions in the viewer about the promises of progress and social redemption made by modernity.

His work was presented in different international group and solo shows such as at Museion Bolzano 2018; PAC Milan 2015; at Castello di Rivoli and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino 2011; at MARTa Herford; Kunstverein Bielefeld 2008. Further he participated to the Moskow Bienial, Manifesta 7, and T1 Torino Triennale. Solo Shows at Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan 2022; Quartz Studio, Torino, 2018; Villa Croce, Genua, 2017; Kunstverein Arnsberg, 2011. Riccardo Previdi lives in Zurich, works in Zürich and Milan.

Mandla Reuter was born in 1975, Nqutu (South Africa), and he lives and works in Berlin (Germany). As a sculptor and installation artist, he explores the ambiguous relationship between art and the notion of ‘place’. The constant focus of Mandla Reuter’s research is the exploration of internal and external space. His interventions, which are subtle but at times also radical, call into question typical artistic notions such as ‘art production’ and ‘presentation context’. Reuter often bases his work on the specific characteristics of the space in which he is exhibiting. Poetic, ironic and surreal, Mandla Reuter is an artist who disrupts the language of the ‘system’ of art. He sometimes appears to entirely detach this from the real world, evoking an alienating atmosphere in which fiction proliferates. Reuter takes local narratives to return them to the world as universal events, metaphors of the contradictions that have always distinguished contemporary man. Iquitos, Buenos Aires, the island of Thasos, Los Angeles – where the artist owns a plot of land purchased for an exhibition (A Plot, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2010) – are some of the places that the artist has traced in his personal geography, the routes that led him to come across mythical tales or paradoxical stories.

A selection of his Solo Exhibitions: Neompalta, Friends of S.M.A.K, Ghent, 2018; Papananamama, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, 2018; Wasser, Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, 2017, Leland Fitzpatrick House, Los Angeles, 2017; Francesca Minini, Milano, 2017; Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017; Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, 2017; Mandla Reuter, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, 2016; Atlantis in collaboration with Neue Alte Brücke, On Site – Petit Palais, Paris, 2016; #08 Mandla Reuter, Mezzaterra11, Flat Gallery, Belluno.