Barbara Fragogna

Profile photo by Petrov Ahner

Lives and works in Berlin as artist and curator from 2008
Venice-Italy 1975

TEXT by Elisa Ganivet

Do not believe that any god can examine hearts and kidneys, and limit what has its origin in nature and what has its origin in freedom.
M. Merleau-Ponty



Viscerally Yours,

A human being is only composed of the liquid and raw net of his organism. The passion s/he feels is conceived only by the entity of idea. However it is the fleshy and the bony corpora themselves which collide in the outburst of erotic-romantic feelings. Barbara Fragogna plays her « gentlewomaneria » with extraordinary sensual and organic perfection.

We perceive the taste of the organs with all our senses. The artist takes us deep into a romantic fairytale the irony of which we cannot escape from. And what would be passion without irony? We are all free to chose our own suffering and interpersonal relations. Our actions in all their craze are foreseeable. Consciously, we dive into them, since human being is an animal- how political, how ironic. Or is it even absurd? An absurd process is being inflamed if the desire is not satisfied. B...

Asilo: Istituto Suore del Soccorso (Nuns)
Elementari: Istituto Suore Salesie (Nuns)
Medie: Istituto Solesin, Suore di S. Francesco d’Assisi (Nuns)
Superiori: I.T.C.S. Paolo Sarpi (Ragioneria/Accounting)

… si può capire che con delle premesse del genere non si poteva più continuare a studiare bensì auto-educarsi e quindi diventare artisti.
... you should understand, after those assumptions one can't go on studying, one should start to self educate in order to become an artist.

MAIN SOLO SHOW

2015
27.3 - 24.5
ARBITRIUM "ANYWAY"
Gallery #14 - Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan

30.1 - 26.2.
a Collective Solo Show
Fusion Art Gallery, Torino

2014
NEST | RENAISSANCE
cccTo Ex Birrificio Metzger Torino

EVERYDAY RENAISSANCE (After All)
GALLERY 52 BERLIN
22.3 - 5.4.2014

2013
“Romantic Love Doesn’t Exist. I’m A Very Romantic Creature. Married Women Are Easier”
@ Metamorfosi Gallery Vi, Italy

2012
+ New Works 2012 @Nova 12 Ag, POTSDAM Berlin, Germany
+ 22.9 - 22.10
“Romantic Love Doesn’t Exist. I’m A Very Romantic Creature. Married Women Are Easier”
@ Galerie Sui Generis Bonn
+ 1-11.8 - My Cage Is Your Palace, Solo show at EMERSON GALLERY BERLIN, Germany

2011
+ 9.12.2011- 4.1.2012 - Fade
SineDieProjectRoom Berlin, Germany
+ 24.6 - 5.8 - Enough is ENOUGH
KH Tacheles NewGallery Pavillion,Berlin, Germany
2010
+ 5.9 - 5.11- The Mixed Match
SineDieProjectRoom Berlin, Germany

2009
+ 1.12 - 31.12 - Paintings
Galleria 3D - Venice, Italy
+ 1.11- 20.12 - Drawings
Iam Gallery - S. Francisco, USA

2008
+ oct 2008 - The Blooming Body Project,
Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany
+ 2007 - the Inside Body
MIROIR DE LA MUSIQUE. Padova, Italy
curated by Giorgio Segato