Daniele Sigalot: Einmal Ist Keinmal

Anna Laudel Düsseldorf showcases Einmal Ist Keinmal by the Italian conceptual artist Daniele Sigalot, who is recognized by his innovative use of different materials and interdisciplinary techniques. His artistic language is joyful, cynical, absurd and shocking through its content, materiality, and scale. 

Opened on September 26th, “Einmal Ist Keinmal” means “Once is never”, which implies that doing something only once, does not count. This German saying also fits very well with Sigalot’s cynical artistic language, which is present throughout the exhibition.

As a person who worked in the advertising industry, he appropriates his advertising background in order to create sharp and short sentences, which are critique to the art market, perception of life and expectation from the future. 

Simple as well as strong and sharp, his works challenge the dichotomy through materials he uses and the cynical language on his text-based works. What is ephemeral or enduring? What is natural or artificial? What does color mean? What does one expect from life and the future? What is art? These rhetoric questions trigger the ironic language of the artist. 

According to him, in order to find a successful idea, at least hundreds of ideas might go to trash. Sigalot transforms this process of producing “bad” ideas into sculptures that balls and towers of wrinkled up papers on a large scale of artworks. Each seven wrinkled paper towers topped with a carefully folded paper sheet to symbolize the agonizing process of producing a good idea is located in the exhibition.

Sigalot’s exhibition presents another on-going series which are dedicated to the cities that the artist lived so far. Maps he used, which are carved into reflective stainless-steel surfaces, also function as distorted mirrors. Each encounter of the audience with the work is a personal experience. And also renowned paper plane series as a standing sculpture and wall installations. The shape of the paper plane is another pattern that is repeatedly used in Sigalot’s works. The universal concept of the folded paper plane invites visitors to reconnect with their memories from their early childhood or recent past. 

Daniele Sigalot’s Einmal Ist Keinmal will be on display at Anna Laudel Düsseldorf until December 14, 2019.

About Daniele Sigalot
Born in Rome in 1976, Sigalot has been active in the field of advertising, where he has worked for seven years among several agencies in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. In 2007 he left Saatchi & Saatchi London to spend full time on the Blue & Joy artistic project, which he founded with Fabio La Fauci in 2005. The name of the project becomes for years a true pseudonym of the duo Sigalot / La Fauci, which until 2013 continues a prolific four-handed production. At the end of 2014, this duo ends its partnership and Daniele Sigalot now continues his solo career by his works focusing on installations.

The center of his research spins around the ambiguity between the perception of the materials used and their real nature, making the contrast the core of his entire production. His most recognizable works are certainly the large installations of aircraft apparently paper but actually of metallic nature. Along with these fleets of planes, Daniele Sigalot literally flew around the world with his planes, bringing them to more than thirty cities in the four corners of the planet. Sigalot continues his work at his atelier La Pizzeria in Naples.

About Anna Laudel
Founded by Anna Laudel with the aim of supporting artists from Turkey and abroad by providing a prominent contemporary exhibition platform and by developing a greater understanding of contemporary art. 

Following its first location in Istanbul’s old finance district of the late Ottoman Empire in Karaköy, Anna Laudel opened its second gallery in a historic building in Düsseldorf, Germany to expand more internationally. Directed by Ferhat Yeter, both galleries host solo and group exhibitions by artists from Turkey and beyond and represent artists at an international level by showcasing their latest projects at leading international art fairs. 

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