Cosmetic cut-outs and cut-ups of somatic features found faces and anonymous or mythical examples of aesthetic beauty. Human models are photographed and perfected by the touch of some of today’s artists in their untiring quest for ideal beauty, unconventional, made-to-measure. Makeup is a group show curated by Mariuccia Casadio, which displays some of them, exemplifying an epoch-making modus operandi, a tendency to reinvent the information and materials of memory, a drive to customise the existing, defining and inexorably explaining contemporary imagery.
The exhibition includes Maurizio Anzeri, John Bock; Dr Lakra, Lothar Hempel; Jamie Isenstein, Alan Reid; Markus Schinwald, John Stezaker; Sue Tompkins; Ryan Trecartin; Vedovamazzei and Francesco Vezzoli.
