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Milano: GAM, Kelly Akashi's exhibition "Converging Figures" opens to the public for the sixth edition of "Furla Series"

The exhibition offers a unique opportunity for the masters of the past to meet with the protagonists of the contemporary.

Milano: GAM, opens to the public the exhibition “Converging Figures” by Kelly Akashi for the sixth edition of “Furla Series”.

GAM – Modern Art Gallery of Milano until December 8th, hosts “Converging Figures”, an exhibition by American artist Kelly Akashi, curated by Bruna Roccasalva.

The exhibition is the sixth edition of the “Furla Series” project, the result of the collaboration between Fondazione Furla and GAM, which since 2021 have been promoting exhibition projects together every year, offering a unique opportunity for masters of the past to meet with contemporary protagonists.

Kelly Akashi is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles to a family of Japanese origins, whose practice is distinguished by the ability to reconcile a conceptual approach with an attention to form and the process that leads to its realization.

Always executed with expert manual skill and a deep knowledge of materials, Akashi's works explore universal concepts such as time and entropy, the impermanence of the natural world and the transience of the human body.

Attracted by materials such as wax, bronze and glass, Akashi shapes them into forms that reproduce natural elements such as plants, flowers, shells or parts of her body, recording their physiological changes and therefore the passing of time.

Juxtaposed in poetic compositions that often appear fragile and precious, these forms, familiar and alienating at the same time, address existential themes, encouraging us to look at things from a different, broader and less anthropocentric perspective.

The project, the first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist by an Italian institution, presents a series of new productions specifically designed to dialogue with the architecture and masterpieces of the museum.

The works on display are born in response to the context that hosts them and fit into it in a discreet and silent way, integrating harmoniously with their surroundings.

Milano: GAM, apre al pubblico la mostra "Converging Figures" di Kelly Akashi per la sesta edizione di "Furla Series".

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