From 18 September to 17 November, 10 Corso Como Gallery hosts Gut, the most comprehensive exhibition to date showcasing the work of US artist Talia Chetrit, curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Anna Castelli.

For her solo exhibition, the artist brings together works from the last twenty-nine years (1994-2023), creating a dialogue between different moments in both her artistic career and her private life.

Self-portraits, family scenes, still lifes, street photography; no subject is excluded from Chetrit’s critical investigation into the current validity of the various genres of photography. These images instill a candid feeling of fragility while remaining confrontational, while expanding contemporary notions of self-representation, sexuality, power dynamics.

Fusing emotional intensity with a specific approach to composition, her pictures can be understood as an exercise in what it means to look at an image and what it feels like to pose for the camera.

Talia Chetrit’s work plays with fiction and can deceptively feel diaristic at times. Her work is filled with and embraces contradictions. Each of these images invites us to reflect on the multifaceted nature of human relationships and the ways in which these dynamics are shaped, standardized, and perpetuated through the domains of representation.

Exhibition details

Talia Chetrit

Gut
Curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Anna Castelli
10 Corso Como Gallery
18.9-17.11.2024
Daily: 10.30am - 7.30pm
Free Admission

For the first time in Italy, a special exhibition project of the emblematic designer.

In the new chapter of 10 Corso Como, according to Tiziana Fausti’s vision, the Gallery exhibition space continues its programming dedicated to fashion culture with a special project of the designer who provoked and inspired a distinctive aesthetics and imagery: Yohji Yamamoto.

Organized by 10 Corso Como and Yohji Yamamoto, the project curated by Alessio de′ Navasques gathers a dialogue between iconic pieces from the runway, recent and future collections, in an ascending and immersive climax.

From May 16 to July 30, 2024, in the spaces of the Gallery, garments will be the protagonists in a flow where every shape, cut and geometry transmits an idea of the future and beyond time.

Exhibition details

Yohji Yamamoto. Letter to the Future
Curated by Alessio de’ Navasques
10 Corso Como Gallery
16.5-30.7.2024
Daily: 10.30am - 7.30pm
Free Admission

Please note that on 30.7.2024 the exhibition will close at 1 pm.

Happy Birthday Louise Parker is the first solo exhibition in Italy by the American photographer Roe Ethridge (Miami, 1969) curated by Alessandro Rabottini. Of the language of photography, Ethridge explores historical implications and contemporary paradoxes, seamlessly navigating the realms of visual art and fashion photography through a distinctive and unconventional style.

Conceived especially for 10·Corso·Como, Happy Birthday Louise Parker brings together a selection of iconic photographs from the past 15 years alongside previously unreleased works, fusing themes and subjects that, at a first glance, may appear unrelated to each other: elaborate still lives, accurately staged fashion shots, melancholic landscapes, and intimate portraits. Images are skilfully juxtaposed to forge visual connections, unravel contrasts, and weave narratives, and despite the diversity of their atmospheres, what connects them all is a formal rigour that is as haunting as it is arresting, if not confrontational at times.

The exhibition draws its title from the alluring presence of Louise Parker, a model with whom Roe Ethridge collaborated with on the occasion of several fashion editorials starting from 2010. Throughout the years, the two became friends and Ethridge had the opportunity to portray Parker both inside and outside the framework of the fashion industry. We see the recurring, hypnotic image of Louise transitioning from highly stylised fashion spreads to more spontaneous, intimate portraits and back, manifesting the intertwining of life and representation, the everyday and the staged. In this collection of portraits, the gaze of the artist meets the self-aware gaze of the model, in a way that thematise and transcends the dynamic interplay between the photographer, the camera, and the subject, between the intentionality of the artistic vision and the intentionality of the pose.

Within this narrative in which Louise is present at different stages of her life - as an individual and as a model, as a woman and as a mother - Roe Ethridge inserts fragments of his own biography: a portrait of the artist together with his son at the age of 5 (Me and Auggie), his own sinked car salvaged from a muddy river in Belle Glade, the city in Florida where his mother grew up and where his parents met in High School (Durango in the Canal) , more recent portraits of his children taken during moments of leisure (Lee Lou at Sunset Park Ferry Terminal, Auggie with Racoon Tail), and a digitally manipulated portrait of the artist at his 52nd birthday party (Birthday Multiply), the result of the superimposition of two different images, one taken from his daughter.

Within this non-linear storytelling, the relation between personal memories and the realm of fashion is revealed through the nuanced connections established between the images when installed in the space: fashion, in fact, is an ever-evolving discipline where trends emerge, flourish, and fade, each season serving as a poignant reminder of the cyclical nature of life.

Exhibition details

Roe Ethridge – Happy Birthday Louise Parker
Curated by Alessandro Rabottini
10 Corso Como Gallery
21.02 – 5.04.2024
Daily: 10:30am – 7:30pm
Free admission