MASI Lugano presents “Many Moons”, Switzerland’s first major museum exhibition dedicated to Louisa Gagliardi. For the occasion, the artist has created two monumental new series of paintings and a number of sculptures, exhibited in a site-specific presentation curated for LAC’s lower ground floor. The project also includes a selection of paintings from recent years.

Louisa Gagliardi (1989, Sion, Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich) is one of the most interesting figures on the Swiss contemporary art scene. Her works, whose subject matter taps into artistic movements such as surrealism, metaphysics and magical realism, forge an unsettling yet intriguing imaginary realm that draws on a wide range of aesthetic registers, from the history of art to popular culture. The imaginary worlds dreamt up by Gagliardi reflect on the complexities of modern life and, like inner snapshots of our hyper-connected era, they investigate the meaning of identity, the ongoing social transformations and the relationship between the individual and their environment.” — MASI Lugano

“The hybrid nature of Louisa Gagliardi’s works consummately evokes the space the human experience takes place in today, in which the boundaries between real and virtual, intimacy and visibility, belonging and alienation, voyeurism and exhibitionism, are blurred,” explains Francesca Benini, curator of the exhibition.

“The ambiguity between reality and representation is a central theme in Gagliardi’s art. The act of creating an alternative world through painting, which can be visually entered, is inevitably linked to the ability of digital media to extend our living space and generate a parallel reality that can be inhabited not only mentally”, underlines the curator Francesca Benini.

“Louisa Gagliardi: Many Moons” was curated by Francesca Benini.

Images courtesy MASI Lugano.