17th January – 19th February

opening Sat 17th Jan 09

Presenting the opening in Italy of his exhibition Family Day, Maurizio Anzeri provocatively depicts the unpresentable aspects of the individual, the couple and the family group in a country that, with the demonstration in Rome on 12th May 2007, officially proposed its aim of putting the traditional family nucleus back at the centre of the cultural, social, sexual and economico-political life of the nation, thus invoking the spectres of paternalism in firms and schools, of moralization in saving, and of sanitization in medicine, in order to restore what the sociologist Jacques Donzelot in the Seventies called the Police des Familles.

For this exhibition, the artist has used sewing, embroidery and crochet work, traditionally female activities, to work a web of impulses, emotions and personal memories onto impersonal photos picked up in flea markets, out of grandmother’s trunks, from forgotten boxes in the attic or from collections of cemetery imagery, never ceasing to reveal identities by veiling the numerous faces, constructing over them stories in coloured threads.

Oscillating casually and ironically between the delirium of carnival, funereal mourning and the rituals of contemporary mythology, Maurizio Anzeri works at an uninterrupted writing of the labyrinth on the quicksands of identity.



Maurizio Anzeri " Family Day "
17th January - 19th February 2009

Opening Sat 17th - 6.30 p.m.
Furini Arte Contemporanea - Arezzo (Italy)

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