Chiara Bastoni                                        

Of Repetition and Recognition is an exhibition conceived of as a visual and conceptual experiment that combines the pictorial work of Brian Veis and the photographic work of Chiara Bastoni. The title is derived from a passage of The Disappearance of Rituals by philosopher Byung Chul-Han and refers to the evident seriality presented throughout the works and to the conceptual framework behind the photographs. Repetition, Chul-Han argues, provides a way to intensify experience and discover new aspects within the already known. He argues that the constant focus on novelty leads to overlooking the richness of the present, while repetition reveals its hidden depths. The choice to focus on serial subjects in Veis’ paintings is far from being a style excercise, but rather, similarly to what Chul-Han brings forth, an attempt to carve into an aspect of reality, to return to a familiar internal landscape, ideal and blurry enough to linger at the edge between figuration and abstraction. The photographic work selected by Chiara Bastoni - who also conceptualized and curated the exhibition - attempted to extend the act of recognition, on a duplicit level; for the viewer, in the lines continuation and in the material associations; conceptually, in the recognition that focusing on stable, a-temporal and fleetingness resistent subjects intimately represent for her.
As evident, the matter is presented with a predominantly visual and intuitively conceptual approach. The choice to rotate some of the works is an experiment that aims to raise questions about perspective shifts and construction of views - far beyond the world of art. The result is a neat world of lines, light and textures, where the confines between figuration and abstraction are molded and the separation between media becomes almost intangible. 

Danish-born painter Brian Veis is shaped by a background in mathematics and aesthetic philosophy and phenomenology, which provide the theoretical framework for his works, through which he examines the common features of subjective experiences. The images he creates reveal a visual ambiguity, playing with size, perspectives and pysical orientations, removing human artefacts or living organisms from the representation to avoid clear determinations.
His approach is analytical, his work serial and processual, conceived of as the result of an imprinting process and of an exploratory approach to tools, materials and texhniques.  He uses different layers of transparent acrylic paint, shellac, oil paint and ship's varnish. 190x130cm

Italian-born Chiara Bastoni is a visual artist working primarily with photography and video. Her works focus on structures, ruins, objects, symbols, light, impersonal human figures, subjects that quietly and modestly populate the photographs, tightly locked in space, serving as spatial equivalents of what rituals provide in time: anchor points.
The photographs are printed on 1.5mm steel sheets. 120x80cm