Basel Social Club 2024

Alessandro di Pietro

zaza’ is happy to announce its partici- pation at Basel Social Club with a solo presentation of Alessandro di Pietro. This year’s edition takes place in a new loca- tion and new format: a week-long event in the open air on farmland fields, amongst trees, and between the barns of Bruderholz, Basel.

The artist will present a new site spe- cific sculptural installation, which continues his ‘Fade Paw’ studies. The sculptures are studies on becoming monster: they question the othering of dis- abled bodies, which the artist often trans- fixes into more complex narratives that arise from his cinematic layering of ref- erences and distinct formal vocabulary.

The series of 4 sculptures titled “Fade Paw Studies,” presented for Basel Social Club consists of some bronze sculptural studies on the hybridisation of a human/animal paw in free-falling meteorites pointing at the indus- trial cylindrical structures-displays rising out of the ground and bounding the man-made landscape of BSC24.