Artissima with Peles Duo and Larisa Sitar

Larisa Sitar, Resplendent II, 2024, bas-relief, concrete, 32 x 32cm

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SUPRAINFINIT returns to Artissima in Turin with a lively dialogue between Berlin-based artists Peles Duo and Bucharest-based sculptor artist Larisa Sitar, highlighting new works that continue their research and institutional presentations from the last two years.

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LARISA SITAR


Larisa Sitar is considered one of the most important artists of her generation, an established name regionally, and more and more internationally. She is a KVOST Scholarship holder and was honoured with the Claus Michaletz Prize in Berlin in 2023. Previously, Larisa Sitar was in residency at WIELS Brussels, followed by her solo exhibition in Wiels Project Room, Robust Boast, curated by Caroline Dumalin in 2019.

One of the main materials used by the artist is concrete — a material with a powerful visual legacy throughout modernism, social realism and brutalism. For several years, the artist has been experimenting with different ways of utilising concrete in her artworks, both as a structure and a medium for integrating unexpected flowing shapes.

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Selected solo and group exhibitions: Rhizome – Network Without Center (2024), Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; AFTER SCULPTURĂ at Cazarma U, Timisoara, Romania; AFFAIR Warsaw - meltdown (2023), Piktogram gallery, Warsaw, Poland; AFFAIR Bucharest - heat (2023); Chronicles of the Future Superheroes (2021), Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania; Life, a User’s Manual, Art Encounters Biennale (2017), Timisoara, Romania; TheFortress of Solitude from the holy wood of eternal noise, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) Bucharest (2016); Essl Art Award CEE, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / Wien (2011).

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PELES DUO

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That recurrent motifs in the paintings presented at Artissima come from sculpture, most visibly the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele, is consistent with a practice that has always sought to translate one medium into another, existing work into new work, energy into object. The layering of image, colour and surface in the paintings (whose technique is not limited to the brush but also includes marbled Jesmonite and UV print) creates a palimpsest in which a reference or an idea can become visible without ever becoming dominant.

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Selected solo and group exhibitions: FORMS OF LOVE (2024), Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin; Peles Duo x Peter Jacobi (2023), Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest; you are fire, dressed in fire (2022), Kunstverein Pforzheim (DE); Even here, I exist (2020), Barakat Contemporary, Seoul (KR); NOW (2019), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One (UK); the sky opens twice (2019), Künstlerhaus Graz(AT); GRI 2 (2018), Swiss Institute, New York (USA); Grid (2017), Kunstverein Hannover (DE).

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