Otto D'Ambra. Ecce Animal

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OTTO D’AMBRA

ECCE ANIMAL

curated by Giuseppe Savoca

from May 12 to June 11, 2016


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A partire da giovedì 12 maggio 2016 , lo spazio espositivo Burning Giraffe Art Gallery ospita la mostra Ecce Animal , dell’artista Otto D’Ambra (Milano, 1978, vive e lavora a Londra), riedizione riveduta e ampliatadell’omonima personale tenutasi nella capitale britannica nel mese di marzo. Composta da circa venti opere,alcune delle quali realizzate appositamente per l ’occasione, la mostra offre l’opportunità di entrare in contattocon l’estro tecnico e il talento creativo di uno degli artisti emergenti più versatili e apprezzati del vasto panorama

londinese. Illustratore, stampatore e tattoo artist tra i più in voga a Londra, Otto D’Ambra apre, nel 2013, il WhiteElephant Studio, dopo numerose esperienze in diversi ambiti creativi e la laurea presso l’Accademia di Brera. Ilavori in mostra offrono un’efficace esemplificazione della varietà di tecniche che l’artista padr oneggia conestremo talento (dall’acquaforte alla puntasecca, passando per la linografia e i disegni a inchiostro su carta),immergendo lo spettatore in un’atmosfera surreale, in cui nulla è come appare a un primo sguardo. Dietro aldettagliato e minuzioso realismo grafico che contraddistingue i lavori dell’artista, si nasconde un’affascinantecapacità di scovare e ricreare relazioni inaspettate tra gli esseri viventi, utilizzando la potenza simbolica deglianimali per costruire delle metafore morali, tanto efficaci quanto sintetiche, capaci di mettere a nudo lecontraddizioni della società umana evolutasi (o involutasi) nel suo stadio digitale. La mostra, a cura di GiuseppeSavoca, è un invito a osservare la realtà attraverso lo sguardo attento e critico d ell’artista, e il suo filtro creativoin grado di creare potenti icone, figure emblematiche che si specchiano in se stesse dando vita a una collezionedi postmoderni stemmi araldici, surreali e simbolici al contempo, capaci di rapire immediatamente lo sguardocon la loro estrema raffinatezza tecnica e di trattenerlo offrendogli un nuovo punto di vista, arguto e ironico, sudi una società in cui ogni animale è in relazione simbiotica ed evolutiva con gli altri e di cui l’artista stila i nuoviorizzonti ibridi.

Starting on Thursday, May 12, 2016 , Burning Giraffe Art Gallery will host the exhibition Ecce Animal , a solo showby artist Otto D’Ambra (Milan, 1978, lives and works in London), a revised and expanded re-edition of a show bythe artist held in the month of March in the British capital. Made-up of more than twenty artworks, some of whichcreated especially for the occasion, the exhibition offers the opportunity to get in touch with the technical skillsand creative talent of one the most versatile and appreciated emerging artists from the broad London art scene.Illustrator, printer and tattoo artist amongst the coolest in London, Otto D’Am bra, opened, in 2013, the WhiteElephant Studio, after many fruitful experiences in many diverse creative fields and a Major in Set Design at BreraFine Art Academy, in Milan. The exhibited artworks offer the perfect synthesis of the wide variety of techniquesmastered with extreme talent by the artist (from etching to dry-point, linography and ink drawings on paper),immersing the spectator in a surreal atmosphere where nothing is what it looks like at a first glance. Behind thedetailed an minute graphic realism which characterizes the artist’s works, lies the fascinating ability of unearthingand re- creating unexpected relations between living beings, utilizing the animals’ strong symbolism to visualizea series of moral metaphors, as effective as they are synthetic, able to expose the many contradictions of a societyevolved (or involved) to its digital stage. The exhibition, curated by Giuseppe Savoca, is an invitation to look at

reality through the attentive and critical eye of the artist and his creative filter able to give birth to powerful icons,emblematic figures which mirror themselves transforming into a collection of postmodern heraldic coats of arms,both surreal and symbolic, that immediately catch the spectator’s gaze with their extremely refi ned technicalexecution and then hold it by offering a new witty and ironic point of view on a society made of animals insymbiotic and evolutionary relation one to the next, of which the artist drafts the new hybrid horizons.

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INK ON PAPER

Monday Morning2015ink on papercm 100 x 70

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Ego , 2015, ink on paper, cm 100x70



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Beauty and the Beast , 2015, ink on paper, cm 70 x 100



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The Heart Breaker , 2015, ink on paper, cm 70 x 100



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Points of View , 2015, ink on vintage newspapers, cm 70 x 150 (triptych)



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Eulogy2015ink on vintage newspaperscm 150 x 70 (triptych)



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ETCHINGS

App Generation Etching on paperLimited edition of15 cm 50 x 35



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Behind the Beauty Etching on paperLimited edition of 15cm 50 x 35



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UnexpectedRelationsEtching on paperLimited Edition of 15Cm 50 x 35



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First DateEtching on paperLimited Edition of 15cm 50 x 35



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This is London Etching on paperLimited Edition of 15cm 50 x 35



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Everyone Dies Etching on paperLimited Edition of20cm 50 x 35



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Play Etching on paperLimited Edition of 20cm 50 x 35



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Lobbyster Etching on paperLimited Edition of 20cm 50 x 35



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Music Evolution Linocut etching onpaperLimited Edition of 20cm 57 x 38



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Modern Anatomy Drypoint etching on paperLimited edition of 20cm 75 x 35

True Hurts Drypoint etching on paperLimited edition of 20cm 75 x 35



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Yourself , linocut on paper, limited edition of 30, cm 50 x 70



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The ThinkerLinocut on vintagenewspaperLimited Edition of 30cm 63 x 43,5



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Half Beauty Linocut on vintagenewspaperLimited Edition of 30cm 63 x 43,5

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