Concluding its first exhibition season, MASSIMO is glad to introduce eve, Paolo Bufalini’s solo exhibition that will be presented at the Milanese space on December 3rd at via Degli Scipioni 7. The exposition – headed by a critical essay curated by Paolo Gabriotti – drives the audience to an estranging imaginary: a heterogeneous combination of dream-like, prophetic and ordinary elements coexist while creating an indefinite, atemporal setting.
As part of the artist’s research project, the exhibition takes shape as a site-specific installation with the purpose of exploring “the magic and spectral side within the ordinary”. Paolo Bufalini operates on MASSIMO space by altering and contaminating the ambience. The whole layout recalls simultaneously an event that already existed and something yet to happen. A cyclical time that returns in the ambiguity of a palindrome and polysemic title, linked to the proper name but also translatable as vigil, a reference to the waiting time that precedes an event. In this way, eve is home to various meanings, all gathered in a combination of elements that welcome and protect them.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, eve, 2021, exhibition view at MASSIMO, Milan, 2021. Photo by Nicolò Panzeri. Courtesy MASSIMO e l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, Mouths, 2020, tavolino da bar in alluminio, museruole, 80x60x60cm. Courtesy l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, Proposal, 2020, federe in velluto, arduino, schede xbee, stampa 3d, cotone, gommapiuma, due elementi 50x50x20cm. Courtesy l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, Senza titolo, 2020, paletta zincata, teschio, coriandoli, 78x25x30cm. Courtesy l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, Senza titolo, 2018-20, cotta di maglia, sfera di cristallo, 100x40x15cm. Courtesy l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, Auspice, 2019, posacenere, dispositivi audio, dimensioni variabili. Veduta dell’installazione a BocsArt, Cosenza. Courtesy l’artista.
Paolo Bufalini, Mail, 2020, metallo, pelle di serpente, 45x31x2,5cm. Courtesy l’artista.
