isle_amsterdam is

proud to announce and invite you to the first exhibition in the Netherlands by prominent Italian visual artist Luca Vitone. Vitone is part of a generation of Italian artists that emerged during the late 80’s, resuming dialogues with Arte Povera and conceptual art movements.

His investigations into place and space, the un-documented, the forgotten, or the cast out, often relate to nomadic and ethnic minority communities as well as his own personal or ancestral path. Cartography, recipes and folk music traditions line the way. Mapping spaces, journeys, and creating flags as markers and identifiers, Vitone gives voice to the peripheral margins, margins and their communities that continue to be written, erased and rewritten.

isle_amsterdam is

honoured to present the piece here, and within this time in history.

Works are made available courtesy of the artist, and Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin-Köln-München; Galerie Michel Rein, Paris-Bruxelles.

Nulla da dire solo da essere / Nothing To Say, Just To Be (Manzoni)

is an installation of a work of the same title from 2004,

comprised of 21 embroidered wool cloth flags.

The work is a seminal piece from Luca Vitone’s oeuvre,

quoting Piero Manzoni, hung in the heights of isle_amsterdam.

Additional drawings from the project are also on view.