Case Chiuse by Paola Clerico started in February 2014 as a wandering platform of production and consultancy in the field of contemporary arts, with the purpose of supporting artists and facilitating the diffusion of their work.
For ten years, we devised and staged exhibitions, occupying private and inaccessible places, making them temporarily accessible to a vast and heterogeneous audience, thus facilitating a different and more intimate art experience. The exhibitions were always staged in close collaboration with artists, galleries and curators who worked at our side with great passion.
From February 2020 to September 2023 Case Chiuse had its HQ, a studio and exhibition space in via Rosolino Pilo 14, Milan. This place has been the core of AAW and Case Chiuse projects articulated both inside and outside the space, always following the criteria that distinguish its activities: experimentation, research, flexibility, accessibility and collaboration. This partially sedentary interlude ended in September 2023 when the platform became once more nomadic following the idea of both physical and mental ‘wandering’, proved to be the source of great freedom and inspiration and the primary connotation of the work of Case Chiuse.
Were there a leitmotiv in all this, I might dare to seek it out in the attempt to redefine our gaze.
Paola Clerico