autoEncyclopédie

The Laura Bulian Gallery presents the “selfEncyclopedia” exhibition by Luca Maria Patella, a solo show which marks his return to Milan after an absence of thirty years. The exhibition deals with the visual word and writing throughout his artistic development, from the sixties to today.

  Word and sign enter Luca Maria Patella’s different layouts (graphics, photography, film and performance), proliferating and disseminating both inside and outside formats. The usual codes of interpretation and models of communication turn out to be inadequate or compromised, likewise for points of perception and the subject’s behaviour. By resorting to psychoanalysis (from Jung to Lacan) and Duchamp’s Infra-slim, what Patella intends to undermine are the structures of location and identification that we use to capture the world, things and ourselves. The aim of dismounting these structures is to open that which is possible, favouring matter which is always mobile, a flux which is never fixed in stereotypes or conventions but is rather ongoing, becoming.

The title of the exhibition refers both to the primary role played by words in Patella’s work and his ironic claim to establish another complete cognitive system, spanning the whole range of knowledge, from art to science, starting out from his own psychoanalytic self-analysis. Thus selfEncyclopedia aims at being a sort of anthology of Patella’s work, seen at this phase through writing. 

until 23 June 2017
autoEncyclopédie: la Scrittura
curated by Marco Scotini
Laura Bulian Gallery
via G.B. Piranesi 10, Milan