"What remains when the story ends?" was the solo exhibition by the artist Lucas Recchione as part of the Snehta Residency Program in Athens during the time and space of a pandemic.
Time and space appear to be a central relationship investigated through the artist’s work, focusing on a state of transition. The artist, during his research, gathered people’s stories and memories from different places around the world. This state could be captured in his paintings/installations in which the artist recreated the scenes before the unexpected. Those stories remain alive but always shift their meaning depending on the time and space exhibited. United through Recchione ’s narratives, the stories were transformed into collective memories, that otherwise wouldn’t get registered or remembered. His paintings were performing as the mediations between the artist and the world around him.
The use of painting, installation, photography, and storytelling as well as the physical interaction during his research with the subjects of the stories that he is dealing with, created a spectrum of possibilities employed by the artist in order to demonstrate the multiple layers connecting those stories. In that sense, storytelling unfolded with new meanings in multiple contemporaries. Recchione constructed his stories through various forms utilising an extended language to develop a multi-faceted show. By letting the audience navigate the remains of his installations, created to perform as the receptor of his stories, he engaged the public to interact with his process of work.
Lucas Recchione (b. USA) lives and works in Berlin. Recchione holds an M.A. in Architecture from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart (2013), a B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2008), and a B.A. in Art History and Architectural Studies from Tufts University in Boston (2007).
Shows and Residencies include: 2019 Participation in Pop up group shows Signature room at Weinmeister Hotel, Berlin Finalist for Sparkasse Art Prize, Karlsruhe 2018 Stadtmuseum, Eppingen - Kinderspiel 3 Month Piliotenküche Artist Residency in Leipzig Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig - Unheimlich Kunstraum Ping-Pong, Leipzig - PP#15 2017 Riccardo Crespi, Milan - The Anthropocene Berlin Extravaganza Art Fair, Brussels 212 Arts (Solo), NYC - Memory glitch.
OPENING DATE: Thursday, 13th October, 18:00 - 22:00
ON VIEW: 13th - 26th October, 2020
VISITING HOURS: 15, 19, 22 and 26 October, 16:00 - 20:00 and BY APPOINTMENT
LOCATION: Snehta, I.Drosopoulou 47, Kypseli, Athens
