Vernissage: Thursday 21 February 2008 at 7.00 pm
V.M.21 arte contemporanea – Via della Vetrina, 21 – Rome
Tel/Fax: 06.68891365 – e-mail:info@vm21contemporanea.com
Exhibition open until 29 March 2008
Opening hours:: Monday-Friday 11.00 am -7.30 pm– Saturday: 4.30 pm - 7.30 pm

It is with great pleasure that V.M.21 arte contemporanea presents Cosmic Love, an exhibition of the latest works of the all-female art duo, goldiechiari.

Illuminated only by the light of the works themselves (the gallery remaining otherwise in complete darkness), the exhibition commences in the first room of the gallery with a light box installation - Cosmic Love#1 – based on a transparent cock ring apparently floating in space. The second room of the gallery is dedicated to a Cosmic Love, an intergalactic video journey through an imaginary cosmogony of brightly coloured planets, constellations and stars. As the video slowly zooms in on the artificially simulated planets, the final sequence provides a view of the whole system of planets and reveals the origins of the objects.

“Outer space is a pleasant place
A place where you can be free
There’s no limit to the things you can do
Your thought is free and your life is worthwhile
Space is the place”
Sun Ra

The music and the rhythm of the journey suggest that the aim of the voyage is to discover another cosmos, to cross the borders of the solar system with a view to reaching a new, imaginary, sensual dimension: “a visual experience […] that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content." (Stanley Kubrick)

Oggetti non identificati is composed of a huge luminous sex toy which occupies almost all of the largest of the gallery’s rooms. The huge size of this installation is exploited in such a way as to enable the artists to explore the numerous ways in which the object may be symbolically perceived, even suggesting its transposition into an anal or vaginal cavity. However, although the continuous allusions of the work are both visually and tactually attractive, no explicit reference is ever made.

Eleonora Chiari and Sara Goldschmied have worked together in Rome since 1997.

Solo exhibitions:
2006: Welcome, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A.; Enjoy, Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels, Belgium;
2005: V.M.21 arte contemporanea, Rome; bu colics, M3, Antwerp, Belgium;
2002: Blind Date , Viafarini, Milan.

Collective exhibitions:
2007: Carte blanche á Etienne Ficheroulle, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva; Les fleurs du mal, curated by Danilo Eccher, ARCOS Museo d’arte contemporanea Sannio, Benevento; The Game is On, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Museo Vostell di Malpartida de Caceres and Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Cordoba; De leur temps, art contemporaine et collection privée en France, Musée de Grenoble; Laws of relativity, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba; Arte in cantiere, Museion, Bolzano.
2006: Group Therapy, curated by Letizia Ragaglia, Museion, Bolzano; Homeworks, curated by the curatorship team of Berlin Biennale, Gagoosian Gallery; M.M.M., curated by Chiara Agnello and Roberta Tenconi, Care of, Milan and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia;
2005: Emergency Biennale, curated by Jota Castro, Evelyne Jouanno in collaboration with Letizia Ragaglia, Cecenia, Bolzano; Immaginare Corviale, curated by Fondazione A. Olivetti and the Municipality of Rome, Spazio Polivalente Corviale, Roma;
2004: Assab One, curated by Roberto Pinto, Assab, Milan
2002: EXIT, nuove geografie della creativitá italiana, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Prototipi 01 workshop and exhibition curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Stefano Chiodi, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome.