My Family and other Animals

Animals, wild animals, domestic animals, anthropomorphous animals, humanized animals.

Humans, wild humans, domestic humans, protean human, animalized humans. “My family and other animals”, by the homonym book of the English zoologist Gerald Durell, present a beautiful family portait sui generis, were the family relationship and the relationship with the surrounding world, especially the animal one, in unison lend themselves to bizarre interpretations, taking unexpected and surprising directions.

So the artists Marek Benczewski, Frauke Danzer, MariaTeresa Padovani and Denis Riva, spacing between sculpture, painting and installation, invite us to go through the pages of this atypical family album, were, lost all kind of boundary, babies could fly, old uncles ruminate, graceful girls powerful animal equalize, vain toads and rabbits for the family's picture gallery pose.