Davide Stucchi – 6 Corso Via

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Martina Simeti is pleased to announce 6, Corso Via, the artist Davide Stucchi's second solo exhibition with the gallery.

6, Corso Via is the address written on an envelope that will never reach its recipient, evoking a conceptual journey through spaces and times, without a destination. The title is born from an ironic linguistic play, which conveys a much broader concept. Stucchi uses simple elements to create a visual reflection on transience and ephemerality, playing with materials and forms, associations and contradictions.

"Davide's work could be accosted to a certain historical Surrealism, were it not for the fact that it is never psychological work, as he himself explained to me in a long voice message from which I extract a small part: 'Subtraction creates a problem that is much more important, namely that your body is able to create an anticipation, a desire, it creates a connection, at least in my psychology shaped by various primary traumas, which we can leave there because they make us do beautiful things.' Psychology can remain where it is because what we need to know is in the body, or rather, in the object landscape in the absence – in memory or expectation – of the body. This brings us to the theme of the fetishized switch that interrupts nothing at all, a device for activating and deactivating the aforementioned clashes or short-circuits of sense: buttons on elevators and gates, light switches, object-gestures that have the power to generate or obscure realities and connections".

Excerpt from the text by Fabio Cherstich

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Davide Stucchi’s work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions by international institutions including Grazer, Kunstverein, Graz (2023), MUSEION, Bozen (2024), MACRO Rome (2021), Stadtgalerie, Bern (2020), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2018), Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome (2016 and 2020). Stucchi was resident fellow at the Triangle, Marseille (2016), Cité internationale des Arts, Paris (2013), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2013).