Ellie Pratt and Guendalina Cerruti

Shared booth with Ginny on Frederick

miart, Milan

14 - 16 April 2023

South Parade and Ginny on Frederick are pleased to participate in miart, Milan presenting new work by Ellie Pratt and Guendalina Cerruti.

Ellie Pratt’s paintings draw us into a world of familiarity and mystery; questioning and doubting. Rich in brushstroke and suggestive in colour, spectral forms appear from within an inner and outer reality; clouds, engine ducts and obscure reflective surfaces. The viewer is being viewed and strangely drawn through eyes and lips into a world of receding solace. As we question the paintings, the paintings question us. In probing the world of the emotional unconscious, Pratt draws inspiration from a range of pictorial and wider cultural references from Surrealism and Impressionism to modern musical lyrics and fashion magazines.

Guendalina Cerruti’s sculptures, paintings and installations represents inner mono- logues, as micro-universes loaded with sentiments of sarcasm and attitude, lying be- tween reality, representation and imagination. Subjectivity and popular culture come together to create emotive experiences for visitors entering the scene. For miart, Cer- ruti specifically explores metaphors that compare life to a fun park ride, with a desire to translate the meaning of those figures of speech into objects. As architectural models of amusement park rides, the sculptures form a skyline which attempts to subvert the usual associations of skyscrapers with work culture, capitalism and economic power to instead evoke leisure and play.

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Guendalina Cerruti (b. 1992, Milan, IT) is an artist who lives and works in London. She received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 2017. Recent solo presentations include: People Watching, New Low (Los Angeles, 2022), Wasted Dreams, Public Gallery (London, 2021) and Love You Bye, Studiolo (Milan, 2018). She has participated in group exhibitions at Ginny on Frederick (London, 2022); Peres Pro- ject (Milan, 2022); Ordet (Milan, 2021); Greengrassi (London, 2019); MAMBO – Mu- seum of Modern Art Bologna (Bologna, 2018).

Ellie Pratt (b.1991, Kent, UK) is a painter who lives and works in London. She received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2013 and an MA in Painting at the Royal Col- lege of Art in 2015. Recent selected exhibitions include a solo exhibition with PM/AM (London, 2021) and group exhibitions at Stems Gallery x Volery Gallery (Dubai, 2023), Particle Collection x Philips (Miami, 2022), The Artist Room Gallery x Phillips (Seoul, 2022), Lawrence Van Hagen Art, Palazzo Barbaro (Venice, 2022), Workplace (London, 2022), Linseed Projects (Shanghai, 2021) and V.O Curations (London, 2020). Pratt cur- rently has a solo exhibition at James Fuentes (New York, 2023) and a forthcoming solo exhibition at South Parade in Autumn 2023.