{"id":76926,"date":"2024-12-16T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/?p=76926"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:09:18","slug":"mario-dambrosio-hopeful-monsters-signs-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/en\/exhibition\/mario-dambrosio-hopeful-monsters-signs-supermarket","title":{"rendered":"Mario D&#8217;Ambrosio &#8211; Hopeful Monsters Signs Supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>7 DECEMBER 2024 &#8211; 8 MARCH 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the decisive step in evolution from man to Superman takes place in a controlled and jealously concealed laboratory, that of art takes place in plain sight: at &#8220;Signs Superstore&#8221;, at the Mart, as the place for hopeful monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSurface-born creatures\u201d from well-curated packages, like ghosts conjured in a hodgepodge of hybrid signs, gain an unexpected &#8220;organic&#8221; life. They are a massive leap from micro to macro evolution, from disconnected signs to accomplished organism.\u2028&nbsp;Who are they? why do they emerge documenting our deep need: to set free in a game of signs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopeful monsters, &#8220;organisms&#8221; with a profound mutant phenotype, establish a new evolutionary language, opening that decisive breach in our psychic shield, acting as colorful and&nbsp;placid liberating agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanuit een perspectief van de fylogenie van vormen &#8211; organismen, binnen de hedendaagse kunst, zijn zij Reading them from a perspective of the phylogeny of forms- organisms, within contemporary art, they are the decisive telltale of our inner mirroring: from sign to life-giving artistic organism. Monsters that displaying their inner extraordinary nature, a decisive lever in our imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus it, saturated and wounded, is lifted, healed and comforted, monstrously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"76901\" src=\"https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8587-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8587-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8587-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8587-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pietheineek.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8587-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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The concept of offering a total experience starts with the showroom and the production processes but also includes a restaurant, an art gallery, rented studios, a chip shop, a hairdresser and from October 2020 there will also be a hotel. Eek has worked together with architect Iggie Dekkers since 2015, designing a range of houses and undertaking architectural redevelopments and other construction projects. 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