Parallel to the exhibition See You, Tommaso Calabro inaugurates the third contemporary Project Room in its Milan gallery with Innamorato/Furioso, a project by the italian artist Alessandro Miotti (Marostica, 1991), curated by Samuele Visentin.
In the exhibition Innamorato / Furioso, the Venetian artist explores the transformations of desire within contemporary patriarchal society, structuring the work around two tensions — erotic and bellicose — that permeate both the individual and collective dimensions. On the one hand, these forces express a drive toward self-determination and connection; on the other, they investigate a tendency toward forms of belonging and destruction. This tension evokes the coexistence of opposing and complementary impulses, in which what binds and what breaks apart do not exclude each other, but instead coexist and transform one another. Rather than opposing each other, these drives of eros and thanatos intertwine and continuously redefine themselves, contributing to the construction of an unstable and contradictory masculine imaginary.
Alessandro Miotti’s cowboys are lovers and soldiers with an implicit need for recognition, enlisted to wage war as much as called upon to make love. The exhibition Innamorato / Furioso neither criticises nor offers a resolution to the contradictions of man, but instead traces their contours and conveys the complexity of an imaginary caught between the need for acceptance and the desire for detachment. In this unstable space — never conclusive nor resolved — Miotti’s work leaves open the question of what it means today to construct, inhabit and represent contemporary masculine identity.
