Soggettiva Gallery presents, from 13 February until 3 March 2024, the new exhibition CINEMA: LOVE WITHOUT BORDERS. A day before Valentine’s Day, in via Sottocorno 5a, Milan opens the exhibition focused on the noblest feeling of the human soul.
Employing the magnifying glass offered by the Cinema, the exhibition will propose a series of Alternative Movie Posters that investigate love in all its cinematic forms, reinterpreting the films that most of all have been able to stage this mood in an original and capable of leaving its mark in our imagination.
HOLLYWOD LOVING
Within the exhibition it will be possible to identify some narrative nuclei: dealing with love films would have been unthinkable not to include the Hollywood production: among the works on display Casablanca by Michael Curtiz with the stellar pair Bogart-Bergman, revised in pop-art style by a Master of the Polish Poster School as Andrzej Krajewski; another unforgettable diva with Audrey Hepburn is the protagonist of Breakfast at Tiffany’s represented with an unusual horizontal format by Max Dalton, multifaceted artist who divides himself between Buenos Aires and Berlin. The progenitor of all contemporary love stories, Titanic (directed by James Cameron), redesigned by Dalton in a minimalist style, is a must. The golden color that characterizes the beautiful photograph of Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick is taken by Olivier Courbet, French artist moved to California, in the elegant work dedicated to the film.
The Grease and La La Land posters, by James Rheem Davis (graphic designer from San Francisco) and Patrick Connan, illustrator and art director from Paris, move to the rhythm of music. Two other Hollywood films such as The Misfits – which was the last performance for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe – and The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese – with a sweet Michelle Pfeiffer – were re-imagined for Soggettiva Gallery respectively by Cristina Stifanic, eclectic artist who loves to experiment with digital, and Stefania Gagliano, who thanks to refined printing techniques creates unique and unmistakable works.
OUR ARTISTS
Two other artists with whom Soggettiva Gallery collaborated to create exclusive works are Adam Juresko, designer originally from Virginia, USA and Silvia Cocomazzi, Milanese illustrator and former student of the School of Comics in Milan. The first will feature five works, all inspired by great cinematic loves: from Drive, in which the shadows of Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan meet in a tender kiss, up to the Shakespearean love of Wild at Heart by David Lynch taken by Juresko with bright colors; from American Beauty, where in the shades of red is mentioned the famous scene of the movie characterized by a shower of roses, up to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, romantic hymn to love win omnia, translated by the artist thanks to elegant graphic signs. Finally, Juresko paid a photographic tribute to the Nouvelle Vague classic À bout de souffle.
Silvia Cocomazzi instead focused on a unique and iconic director, namely Wong Kar-wai, a director from Hong Kong who became famous for a film that mentions love since its very title: we are talking about In the Mood for Love, film can evoke this feeling with the sole use of the soundtrack. In addition to In the Mood for Love, Cocomazzi has represented five other films by the director, from Happy Together to Hong Kong Express, from Fallen Angels to As Tears Go By and Days of Being Wild.
LOVE IS IN THE SPACE
A separate chapter is dedicated to all those films characterized by an “extra-ordinary” love, whether it is comic-inspired films or science fiction settings: To represent the love between superheroes will be Spiderman – that the Californian designer Anthony Petrie portrays while holding, in a sort of revisited Pietà, the lover who lost by his own fault -, and the couple Batman / Catwoman (directed by Tim Burton), represented by the Californian illustrator Steven Luros Holliday in a new and almost “fetish” look. The world of science fiction is presented instead under the guise of works inspired by film-manifesto of an unusual but very contemporary love, that man-machine: Her was re-intepreted by the Oregon artist Raphael Kelly, Blade Runner from French artist Guillaume Morellec while Ex Machina was redesigned from Scottish Rapscallion Art.
Finally, a small section will focus on France, the romantic country par excellence: on display posters of two films such as Amélie – rethought by UK-based graphic artist Ruben Ireland and Polish artist Leszek Żebrowski – and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (directed by Céline Sciamma), to whom the self-taught artist Nan Lawson dedicates a poignant graphic work.
INFO
SOGGETTIVA GALLERY
Via Pasquale Sottocorno 5/A, 20122 Milano
3357722437 – 3458463222
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 10 – 20.30
Saturday and Sunday 10-13.30 // 16-19.30
