Goldschmied and Chiari

Untitled View, 2017

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Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari are based in Milan, Italy, and have been working together since 2001. 

In 2015, of their exhibits was mistakenly “cleaned up” by a janitor who thought there had really been a party:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SQfgYOIUh4.   Although the duo showed “no sense of humor” about the event, which led to one art critic insinuating that their piece must have indeed been “rubbish,” they have gone on to develop a unique style.  

In Untitled Views /Untitled Portraits, the artists experiment with colored smoke flares at their studio.  Altered photographs of smoke, edited into artificial landscapes, fuse with mirrored glass in a specialized printing process.  The playful works merge genres of performance art, studio-based photography, portraiture, and pop, and subtly change according to their particular surroundings and the viewer's position in space.  

Their works are included in numerous collections including, the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudegno, Turin, Italy, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy, FRAC Brétagne, Rennes, France, LIMAC, Museo de arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru, The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA, and the Maison Bernard Anthonioz, Paris, France, among others.

Links:
https://qz.com/535482/italian-museum-cleaners-mistook-a-contemporary-art-piece-for-trash/