MUCHO MAS! è un’artist-run space a Torino, fondato da Luca Vianello e Silvia Mangosio. Inaugurato nel febbraio 2018, è nato dalla volontà condivisa di favorire nuove connessioni e riflessioni sullo sviluppo del linguaggio fotografico nell'ambito artistico. Mucho Mas! si propone di promuovere iniziative culturali e altre attività che contribuiscono a diffondere, apprezzare e valorizzare la fotografia e l’immagine, sia a livello locale che internazionale. Mucho Mas! espone artistə italianə e internazionali la cui pratica artistica è incentrata sulla trasformazione dell'immagine contemporanea.

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PAST EXHIBITIONS:
_BOUNDARIES - Human & Tiger conflict
By Sethil Kumaran
25/11/2024 - 25/12/2024

_NEW GENERATIONS 2024
Dario Capello, Marco Curiale, Oleksandra Horobets, Federica Mariani, Alessandro Mina, Viola Marini, Giorgia Pia, Marta Rocchi
22/09/2024 - 15/10/2024

_ACROSS THE OCEAN
by Hiền Hoàng
02/05/2024 - 02/06/2024

_AETERNA
by Lorena Florio, Katrina Stamatopoulos
07/03/2024 - 21/04/2024

_FLOWER-LIFE
by Nobuyoshi Araki
22/08/2023 - 20/02/2024

 _NEW GENERATIONS
Mostra collettiva: Giorgio Andreoni, Claudia Catanzaro, Flaminia Cicerchia, Brenno Franceschi, 
Alessandro Manfrin, Deborah Martino, Gabriele Provenzano.
13/10/2023 - 08/10/2023

_NSENENE
Michele Sibiloni
19/05/2023 - 30/07/2023

_MEDIUM. MEDITATION. MODULARITÄT.
Alexander Binder
23/03/2023 - 24/04/2023

_EXPLORING THE LIVING STUDOIO
Eva Kreuger
16/06/2022 - 17/09/2022

_SOGLIE
by Alice Faloretti
Curata da Elena Bray
16/06/2022 - 17/09/2022

_HOW TO RAISE A HAND
Angelo Vignali
31/03/2022 - 31/05/2022

_DIACHRONICLES
Giulia Parlato
14/01/2022 - 27/02/2022

_SPACE IN MIRROR IS CLOSER THAN IT APPEARS
Stefano Comensoli_Nicolò Colciago
02/11/2021 - 18/12/2021

_EPICENTRO (PSALM)
Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza
20/05/2021 - 18/09/2021

_Incanto e paranoia (tra due istanti)
Di Stefano Comensoli_Nicolò Colciago, in collaborazione con Annika Pettini.
Sonorizzazione di Alessia Li Causi
19/02/2021 - 21/02/2021

_BRODO
Stefano Comensoli_Nicolò Colciago, Luca Baioni, Achille Filipponi, Stefano Maccarelli, Silvia Mangosio, Caterina Morigi, Luca Vianello
21/09/2020 - 21/11/2020

_TANT DE LOINTAINS BLEUTÉS
Stéphanie Majoral
13/02/2020 - 30/07/2020

_HONESTY OF MATTER / Sincerità della Materia
Caterina Morigi
25/10/2019 - 22/01/2020

_TENTATIVI DI TRASCRIZIONE
Achille Filipponi
at Salon du Salon
24/10/2019 - 24/12/2019

_LOST ANGELES
Richard Newton
19/09/2019 - 20/10/2019

_DALLE SOGLIE DEL SONNO ALLE PRIME LUCI DIURNE
Luca Baioni & Jonny Briggs
19/06/2019 - 28/07/2019

_MESSAGES FROM DARKROOM
Alexander Gehring
05/04/2019 - 10/05/2019

_FEROX - The Forgotten Archives
Nicolas Polli
24/01/2019 - 03/03/2019

_DECOR
Thomas Kuijper
30/10/2018 - 30/11/2018

_ANCHE QUESTE FIDATE COSE TI SARANNO IN ETERNO IGNOTE
Achille Filipponi
19/09/2018 - 19/10/2018

_CAMILLE LÈVÊQUE
Camille Lévêque
03/05/2018 - 31/06/2018

_XIII
Enrico Carpegna, Pablo Balbontin, Valerio Manghi Cleo Fariselli, Handegg.
13/03/2018 - 24/04/2018

_DEMONS
Luca Baioni
09/02/2018 - 25/02/2018


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_ALFPC
Luca Baioni
30/09/2021

_NEI BOSCHI PIU' ALTI
Stefano Maccarelli
02/10/2020 - 02/10/2020

_COMPITI PER CASA
Guerrila spam & Pomodori Flash
08/03/2019 - 10/02/2019

DECOR
by Thomas Kuijper

30/10/2018 - 30/11/2018



Decor is an experiment by Thomas Kuijpers, departing from the way images to him most of the time are incapable of transmitting emotions on a deeper level, because they are always approached by him from a professional point of view, and it is quite impossible to ‘turn this off’. The content gets rationalised and analysed before a true emotional respons can settle. He’s less used to textual emotion in that way, so the response to an emotion transmitted by text is usually much stronger, and less superficial.

Thomas made a series of works, they are landscapes, without persons; decors of the most horrific, repulsive videos he’s seen in years: propaganda videos by IS. After watching fragments of those videos, feeling numb, being not as emotionally disturbed as he would have expected while thinking about them, he started looking for writers, who could write a new scene to fill this decor, in an attempt to see if this combination can evoke a new feeling that, to him, is stronger than the original image. An attempt to override the handicap of the over-rationalisation of images by partially transforming them into a new format. These empty decors will be presented with a small textbook, in which new interpretations of these scenes to fill the decor will be printed.


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Thomas Kuijpers (b. 1985, Helmond, NL) studied photography at the AKV St.Joost, Breda, and is represented by LhGWR, The Hague (NL). Earlier this year he had his first solo show Paradigm #01 at B.A.D., Brussels (BE). The past few years his work appeared in several group exhibitions and has been acquired for the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He currently lives in Rotterdam, but holds onto his studio in Eindhoven where his ever expanding archives and collections of media material are stalled.
Thomas Kuijpers’ is a visual artist, who investigates how image and text are used to create a narrative about a true event. He's interested in the way the representation of this truth is constructed and always on the lookout for topics wherein this representation has different verions. By playfully adding extra versions of the ‘truth’ to a certain discourse of truthfinding; or distracting different versions of this truth within the topic, Kuijpers is constantly questioning the value of the concept of truth- and it’s representation.
The use of archival materials is almost always the starting point of the work—he is a big collector. Everything starts with a collection. A collection in which he thinks he can find this red line, this fragment, this small metaphor that unravels the way the story is told. This collection, or a part of the collection, pretty much always becomes a part of the work itself (whether or not in processed or unprocessed form).
Some voices might be a bit louder as others, but that’s no reason to think one is more truthful then the other. Through manipulation, recontextualizing existing materials and distilling small details from big stories; Kuijpers makes us understand the difficulties when attempting to capture the truth.




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