With his iconic approach to inflatable objects, Mazzucchelli creates an enormous oversized lemon, designed specifically for this exhibition space. The artwork, with its imposing presence, almost completely invades the environment, obstructing the view and transforming the space into an immersive and surreal experience. Pop language, irony, and exaggeration are key elements in the artist’s research, and here they manifest in a radical alteration of proportions. The lemon becomes an obstacle, an object that is at once playful and disorienting, evoking the suspension of reality typical of Magritte’s paintings, particularly The Listening Room, where the enlargement of the object alters the perception of the surrounding environment.
Tolone, on the other hand, focuses on a minimal detail of the fruit: its seeds. He translates them into an essential sculpture that, in its small and measured dimension, amplifies the sense of disorientation generated by the whole. While Mazzucchelli’s work imposes its playful and overflowing physicality, Tolone’s suggests a more intimate experience, inviting a different mode of observation. The artist’s work moves between subtraction and formal precision, offering an image that seems suspended between reality and abstraction. [Excerpt from the press release]
