Rolando Anselmi is pleased to announce Personal Showcase II, the second chapter of the
group exhibition that brings together some of the most relevant collaborations of the last
decade. The exhibition features works by A Kassen (collab. since 2004, DK), Enrico Della
Torre (b.1988, IT), Thomas Lawson (b. 1951, UK), Jorge Peris (b. 1969, ES), Antonia Rodrian
(b. 1989, DE), Ian Waelder (b. 1993, ES).
Presenting different media, from painting, to sculpture and photography, Personal Showcase
II exhibits the production of the six artists tracing the path they shared with the gallery by
collaborating over the years.
Welcoming the views on the first floor are two works by Ian Waelder, which narrate imaginaries
of private and intimate life. Handle with care and the large canvas Bare Hands nº554
(Scheinwerfereinstellung), in an almost confidential way, explore the memory and roots of the
artist's grandfather through fragments and traces. Waelder’s works are followed by Jorge
Peris's sculpture, Esqueleto. The artist usually acts on space, investigating its possibility of
alteration and metamorphosis. Through transformative interventions, the sculptor subverts
materials in a desire to force their limits. Three works by the Danish collective A Kassen
complete the upstairs installation: Mirror and the sculptures Pile of Clothes and Bronze
painting (XII). With an obvious sense of humor, the four artists base their practice on
performing acts of redefinition and recontextualization of everyday objects and materials.
Proceeding downstairs are Enrico Della Torre's Untitled: in these works the artist questions
the limits of pictorial space as well as the elements present and latent in the work. Through
investigating the relationship between gesture and structure, he covers the canvas with
different layers creating new compositional spaces of lines and light, shadows and silhouettes.
Loaded with allegorical elements, Thomas Lawson's works Burn, Burn, Burn and Beaten to
Death, as well as Shit Storm on the opposite wall, bear witness to the artist's focus on the
depiction of the human form. The works intimately explore bodies and their psychological
depth in order to capture how they relate to their social environment. Concluding the exhibition
are Antonia Rodrian's works, We might push and they might move, A knot and its shadow and
The Build-Up. In her works, the lively flow of objects acts as an ecosystem of characters that
collaborate to trace human gestures and simultaneously reshape the space of the canvas.