Maurizio Savini

tomorrow
Inauguration: Thursday 1st October, 2009 at 7 pm

Exhibition site: OREDARIA Arti Contemporanee

Via Reggio Emilia, 22-24 00198 ROMA

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 10 am - 1 pm / 4 pm - 7.30 pm

Exhibition until 28th November 2009.

The Oredaria Gallery in Via Reggio Emilia 22-24, will be hosting Tomorrow, a solo exhibition

by Maurizio Savini (Rome, 1962),1st October 2009 at 7 p.m.

For this occasion, two colours will be conspicuously invading the whole gallery space: pink

and yellow. Pink will have lost its usual connotation and will assume a completely different

symbolic relevance, whilst a deep and intense yellow will contrast pink its flatness. The use

of chewing gum, a material with ambiguous connotations but at the same time a cultural

trademark, will be exhibited since it has become the most characteristic feature of Maurizio

Savini’s entire production.

Symbols who are part of the imagination of each of us, everyday objects, references to different

cultures and flags of some of the most influential countries in the present political landscape
are opposed to each other and the same time amalgamating. Protagonists of our society,

for instance managers, are portrayed; their attitude revealing the dramatic moment we

are going through. Thus a dislocation is invoked, referring to this exact historic moment

- to our own everyday life and not to some remote age.

Hostile to any form of immobility, Tomorrow urges and incites a society that has lost its

power of imagination. As far as the consumer society and the terrible waste of energy

are concerned, unawareness, non-resistance or apathy are all fiercely condemned; a

new interaction between Man and Nature is invoked. We are encouraged to approach

barriers crossed never before, to react to our grievances and to destroy the nihilistic

view that sees Man in bondage. Savini has at heart the principle of responsibility towards

Nature and calls out to convert the present situation into a long forgotten nightmare.

Born in Rome in 1962, Maurizio Savini studies Architecture at the Rome University La Sapienza. In
1992 holds his first one-man show in Dusseldorf. In 1995 he exhibits at the Reiner Eickoff Gallery in
Hamburg. Four years later, he creates a series of sculptures called Studio 1999 specifically for the Bagnai
Gallery in Siena. During 2000-2001 Savini has one-man shows in London, Paris, Taipei, the Biennial
of Havana and Lyon. Also in 2000, he is invited to contribute to WelcHome a group exhibition at the
Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 2003 he creates a new series of sculptures called Headrooms and
the video called Masticatori for the Olivier Houg Gallery in Lyon. The same year he completes Tabula
Casa an installation created specifically for the spaces of the MACRO, the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Rome and he participates to group exhibitions in Paris and London. In 2004 he partakes in the solo
show Europlant held at the Contempo gallery site in Rotterdam. In 2005 Savini is invited by the city of
Paris for a scholarship from the Cité internationale des Arts and he creates a permanent wallpainting
within the Necker Paediatric Hospital. Contemporaneously he holds a show entitled Très jolie la petite
maison de pommes de terre located at the Cité internationale des Arts and he is invited to be part of
the exhibition Paramour at the Biennial of Lyon, realizing an installation entitled Interno Osseto.
In 2006 he is involved in the exhibition Walk-In at the Alessandro Bagnai Gallery in Florence. In 2007
he presents a new series of sculptures for the Jorge Shirley Gallery in Lisbon. In 2008 he receives an
invitation to participate in the Quadrennial of Rome. In 2008 he holds an exhibition entitled Requiem
for Dissent at the Edoardo Testori gallery of London and in 2009 he presents the solo show entitled
Tomorrow created for the gallery spaces of OREDARIA Arti Contemporanee in Rome.