Exhibition
Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna
04.02 – 02.03.2025
Exhibition
Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna
04.02 – 02.03.2025
PEGGY FRANCK
IN A NAKED ROOM
Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna
04.02–02.03.2025
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna 2025 and Arte Fiera, the Sala Convegni Banca di Bologna at Palazzo De’ Toschi will host In a Naked Room, a solo exhibition by Dutch artist Peggy Franck (Zevenaar, 1978), curated by Davide Ferri.
The exhibition will be open to the public from February 4 and will run until March 2, 2025.
The Exhibition
In a Naked Room is an exhibition in which Peggy Franck engages with Palazzo De’ Toschi, alluding to the presence of a body that has inhabited the public space. At the heart of the exhibition is the Salone della Banca, no longer a representative space but a naked room, stripped of elements that define it as an official setting, almost as if establishing a familiarity that transforms it into a domestic environment.
The exhibition emerges from the succession of different phases and moments, bringing together various temporalities into a here and now of composition. Over several days in January, the artist will visit the space to paint a horizontal surface composed of large aluminum sheets—a kind of new floor layered over the existing one. Once painted, this surface will become a modular device, capable of adapting to the salon both horizontally and vertically, interpreting and opening it up to a fragmented and disjointed spatiality. Furthermore, the reflective surface of each aluminum sheet, overlaid with layers of brushstrokes and color fields, places the viewer’s body and its movement through space at the center of the intervention.
Brushstrokes on reflective surfaces—along with objects, mostly found or repurposed materials—can expand indefinitely or, conversely, compress and flatten in photographic representation, as if living a second existence independent of their material presence. Photography itself, in contrast, can be rolled up, layered, and transformed into an object. The exhibition will also feature photographic images of pre-existing paintings or those derived from the newly created aluminum-sheet intervention, elements of a macro-composition that extends to include even marginal areas and adjacent rooms to the salon.
At the core of Peggy Franck’s work is a pictorial gesture that is fluid and ephemeral—a free, multidirectional, and unstable brushstroke that aligns with abstract expressionism and resonates with artists she admires, such as De Kooning, Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler. This gesture is executed both vertically and horizontally, using diverse tools that generate a network of movements and gestures traversing surfaces, space, and even the walls, exploring their peripheral areas.
“Defining Peggy Franck’s work within the confines of a single definition or specific medium is challenging,” says curator Davide Ferri. “Her practice is elusive and ungraspable: expanded painting, installation, sculpture-oriented? Or simply painting—painting as an imprint of individuality, where the entire space becomes its frame? Painting, sculpture, and photography coexist in her work, interrelating as equivalent elements, allowing her to construct an image through multiple combinatory possibilities and reversible actions.”
Banca di Bologna promotes the exhibition, reaffirming its commitment to contemporary art and continuing its extensive program of both Italian and international exhibitions, a journey it began in 2015.
The artist
Peggy Franck (Zevenaar, 1978, lives and works in Amsterdam) creates layered works that exist at the intersection of photography, installation, and painting. She captures her environments through photography and incorporates these images into new installations. For the artist, an “interior” is an intriguing space between the private and the public, between the inner world and the external one. Her constellations are fluid and open to transformation, much like the inner world, where things can shift and connect in various ways.
Franck often works directly within a space, sometimes painting directly onto the walls of an exhibition venue—a physical testament to the sensitive act of creation. She merges elements from past presentations into new constellations and exhibition concepts.
Her major solo and group exhibitions include, among others: CFAlive, Milan; Club Solo, Breda; Arcade, London; Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen; PSM, Berlin; OUTPOST, Norwich; Photographers’ Gallery, London; FOAM, Amsterdam; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; and Next Visit, Berlin. She has participated in artist residencies at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Information
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EXIBITION CURATED BY
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Davide Ferri
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IN THE CONTEXT OF
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DATES
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February 4 – March 2, 2025
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LOCATION
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Banca di Bologna Conference Hall – Palazzo De’ Toschi
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OPENING HOURS
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during ART CITY Bologna 2025
February 5, 6: 10 AM – 8 PM
February 7, 9: 10 AM – 9 PM
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Saturday and Sunday: 11 AM – 9 PMFree admission
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