Zaza'

Rose Easton hosting Zaza', Milan/Naples presenting Arlette & Sylvano Bussotti's L.

Presented on the occasion of Condo London, this exhibition brings together two bodies of work that belong to different times and generations. Shown alongside one another are a new body of sculptural works by Arlette and a focused presentation of works by Sylvano Bussotti, including a very rare musical score and a collage. Condo’s collaborative format – through which London-based galleries host invited international galleries – creates the conditions for proximity, allowing distinct practices to resonate.

Arlette’s practice approaches fragmentation not as loss but as method. Her new framed metal works – relic-like forms, many cast from melted-down earlier sculptures – retain traces of prior bodies, gestures, and decisions, allowing transformation to remain visible rather than resolved. Through repetition, erosion, and reuse, sculpture becomes a site of material negotiation, where meaning accumulates through touch, resistance, and refusal rather than explanation.

Bussotti’s work unfolds across sound, notation, text, and image, asserting the musical score as a visual and sensorial field as much as a compositional one. His pages gather staves, words, signs, and drawings into dense surfaces where precision coexists with excess, and where notation slips toward image and gesture. As Roland Barthes observed, Bussotti’s scores construct a “homological space,” whose surface seems to yearn to become a scene. Presented here through a score and a collage, the work asserts the page as a charged surface – an unstable script in which notation, text, and image oscillate, and where the score, rigorously coded yet sensuous, seems to incline toward performance and scene. Bussotti’s scores occupy a pivotal position in postwar experimental music: selected by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as the sole image illustrating A Thousand Plateaus, they mark a radical expansion of musical notation comparable to the innovations of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez.

Shown in proximity, the two presentations establish a dialogue across generations, allowing distinct approaches to material, notation, and form to be read in relation without convergence.

Condo London 2026 is a collaborative exhibition involving 50 galleries across 23 London spaces.