Last Tango

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…Cagnin is interested in doing so through an articulation on the privileged and safeguarded life, exploring word play, the grid, and the cause-and-effect scenarios of the “Schadenskizzen” advertisements by die Mobiliar. Porritt is ongoingly absorbed by the individual or collective will to engage and what it takes to raise a voice against all odds. Testing the limits of the sensical, Porritt has been examining the attention-grabbing potential of the graphical symbol of the arrow. Triggering thoughts on rationality, order and truth, the exhibition points our attention to language and logics of perception with the artists sensing and scrutinizing in each their own idiosyncratic ways…”

1 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV) (detail), 2024
 
2 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV) (detail), 2024
 
3 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (IV), 2024
 
4 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III) (detail), 2024
 
5 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III) (detail), 2024

6 Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III), 2024
 
7 Left: Sam Porritt, Double Back, 2024 Right: Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III), 2024
 
8 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024
 
9 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024


Photos: Kilian Bannwart