• Underwater Signs
  • Glub-Club
  • Ruin
  • Triple Carbs Society (The Built-in Kitchen of M. Duchamp)
  • Mosse & Mossette (Study for a Set of Emojis after E. Sottsass' Bacterio)
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Underwater Signs
Glub-Club
Ruin
Triple Carbs Society (The Built-in Kitchen of M. Duchamp)
Mosse & Mossette (Study for a Set of Emojis after E. Sottsass' Bacterio)
INFO
Marco Bruzzone

Ruin

SUNDY, London

21 Sep - 3 Sep 2019



In Marco Bruzzone’s exhibition Ruin, a collection of ceramic vessels evocative of the common men’s urinal, the artist explores the material infrastructure of modern masculinity. As the title suggests, maleness, for Bruzzone, names a social and historical construct to which he feels an ambivalent and alienated commitment. Ruin thus thematises the looming (and in some respects, already accomplished) obsolescence of the concept of contemporary masculinity. It does so with humor and beauty, in a manner uncoloured by nostalgia or resentment. In this way, Ruin explores a certain queerness, imagining (and asking the viewer to work towards) a speculative future in which the material objects that give form to maleness are themselves artifactual rather than vital – objects of curiosity that stand at a certain historical-cultural remove, inviting the viewer’s imaginative reconstructions. The textural, handmade quality of the works evince the care with which Bruzzone inhabits this speculative future, where, by a series of imagined historical reversals, manhood and its ready-mades are themselves long in ruins. Bruzzone thus asks his viewers to join him in an archaeology of the future anterior, asking us to imagine what manhood will ultimately have been, and enjoining us to bring about its ruin.


David Lê



Courtesy of the artist and Sundy Gallery

installation view
installation view
installation view
Brilliant Corner,
2019
glazed ceramic
18 x 12 x 10 cm
Discharge Twin I and II
2019
glazed ceramic
20 x 14 x 7 cm (each)
Triple Fecal Disaster
2019
glazed ceramic
23 x 18 x 7 cm 
Menta Latte I
2019
glazed ceramic
12 x 7 x 4 cm
League of Shadows
2019
glazed ceramic
24 x 20 x 12 cm
Menta Latte (Holy Spirit)
2019
glazed ceramic
26 x 14 x 8 cm
Marco Bruzzone

Ruin

SUNDY, London

21 Sep - 3 Sep 2019



In Marco Bruzzone’s exhibition Ruin, a collection of ceramic vessels evocative of the common men’s urinal, the artist explores the material infrastructure of modern masculinity. As the title suggests, maleness, for Bruzzone, names a social and historical construct to which he feels an ambivalent and alienated commitment. Ruin thus thematises the looming (and in some respects, already accomplished) obsolescence of the concept of contemporary masculinity. It does so with humor and beauty, in a manner uncoloured by nostalgia or resentment. In this way, Ruin explores a certain queerness, imagining (and asking the viewer to work towards) a speculative future in which the material objects that give form to maleness are themselves artifactual rather than vital – objects of curiosity that stand at a certain historical-cultural remove, inviting the viewer’s imaginative reconstructions. The textural, handmade quality of the works evince the care with which Bruzzone inhabits this speculative future, where, by a series of imagined historical reversals, manhood and its ready-mades are themselves long in ruins. Bruzzone thus asks his viewers to join him in an archaeology of the future anterior, asking us to imagine what manhood will ultimately have been, and enjoining us to bring about its ruin.


David Lê



Courtesy of the artist and Sundy Gallery

installation view
installation view
installation view
Brilliant Corner,
2019
glazed ceramic
18 x 12 x 10 cm
Discharge Twin I and II
2019
glazed ceramic
20 x 14 x 7 cm (each)
Triple Fecal Disaster
2019
glazed ceramic
23 x 18 x 7 cm 
Menta Latte I
2019
glazed ceramic
12 x 7 x 4 cm
League of Shadows
2019
glazed ceramic
24 x 20 x 12 cm
Menta Latte (Holy Spirit)
2019
glazed ceramic
26 x 14 x 8 cm