Plymouth Rock is a project space organized by Mitchell Anderson. It was established in 2014 and is based in Zürich, Switzerland.
Plymouth Rock ist ein Kunstraum von Mitchell Anderson organisierter. Sie wurde 2014 gegründet und hat ihren Sitz in Zürich, Schweiz.
Plymouth Rock is a project space organized by Mitchell Anderson. It was established in 2014 and is based in Zürich, Switzerland.
Plymouth Rock ist ein Kunstraum von Mitchell Anderson organisierter. Sie wurde 2014 gegründet und hat ihren Sitz in Zürich, Schweiz.
PLYMOUTH ROCK
MANESSESTRASSE 66
8003 ZÜRICH
+41 (0) 79 483 5258
PLYMOUTHROCKZURICH at GMAIL
bottle, cans / candle, flower, poem
Plymouth Rock at Art Geneve
January 29 - February 2, 2025
This group exhibition is a kind of retrospection, assembling together three Zürich based artists who had their first major exhibitions at our space: Miriam Laura Leonardi (b. 1985, DE) in 2014 and Lorenza Longhi (b. 1991, IT) and Samuel Haitz (b. 1997, CH) both in 2019. Together they represent the span of a full generation of artists working in Zürich today and the works exhibited here each touch upon some of the most compelling and timely veins of thought and interest happening in our art community.
Each of the pieces takes as its foundation a quotidian beverage item: aluminum cans in the works of Haitz and Longhi, beer containers in those of Leonardi and Longhi. The use of the found grounds each of these pieces in the real, placing themselves directly in (or pulling themselves from) the lives of the viewer. This popular recognizability merges with an interest in crafting and vernacular creativity, in Leonardi’s handmade candle using a beer bottle as a candlestick, in Longhi’s homemade couture crafting of a flower using a beer can as a vase. Leonardi’s and Haitz’s contributions engage in forms of found wordplay that grace the formalization of poetry and the surreality of happenstance. The security camera embedded within the Chanel-esque flower of Longhi and the marketing gimmick at the heart of Haitz’s textual Coca Cola cans speak to corporate and global systems of control and desire. Each vessel, whether emptied out, filled back up or displayed as is - reveals itself to be a microcosmic still life that is poetic, intimate and honestly reflective of a current societal state.
Samuel Haitz
magic 2gether, 2019
From: Having a Coke with You (2019 - ongoing)
Coke Zero cans
15 x 11.5 x 5.2 cm
Miriam Laura Leonardi
Candlelight, 2025
Vintage Budweiser Light glass bottle with etiquette, wax and candle wick
40 x 10 x 10 cm
Lorenza Longhi
Vivid Blue Flower, 2024
Fabric, spy camera, SD card, beer can, paint, glue, plastic, casting powder
c. 50 x 20 x 20 cm
