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Delloro Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Squeeze, the first solo show in his Berlin venue of Andreas Zingerle. Squeeze means something connected with the manipulation of shape and materials. Andreas Zingerle freezes the sexual imaginary linked to the body of the individual and to its collective bestowal in his concrete molds of erotic toys. He investigates the linguistic conventions produced by the commercial exploitation of the body, and encourages a re-thinking of the artificial nature of desire, always with a hint of irony.
The shapes of the inflatable dolls are frozen once and for all in a concrete grip and they go from the perishability of plastic and the instability of compressed air to the specie aeternitatis of a new, unknown material. In this way, Zingerle converts the apparently exciting lie of the undamaged doll into a concrete clamp of de-structured forms, at times so tangled to become unrecognisable at first glance, recalling, in their dry dramatic force, the plaster casts of the victims of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
This exhibition focuses on a big installation of works on canvas and a series of sculptures made of absolutely fine concrete, where the artist explores the matter of the body through a vivid and personal tool such as casts of inflatable dolls. Human forms are therefore perceived as sexual wrecks, whose perfectly polished skin emerges from the deep circumvolutions and curves given by the artist’s work of deformation.
