Exhibitions, Italy, Treviso, Possagno, 24 September 2016
Giulia Berra
Punti di sospensione
curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno -Treviso, Italy
24th September - 24th October 2016
From the 24th of September to the 24th of October, the Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova at Possagno (Italy) hosts to the solo exhibition of Giulia Berra, Punti di sospensione, curated by Fabio Carnaghi. The exhibition, dedicated by Fondazione Canova, is integral part of the prize awarded to the artist, the last winner of the Antonio Canova Sculpture Contest, competition promoted by the historic wine house Guerrieri Rizzardi.
Inspired by the winged figures of Canova, always suspended between life and death, Giulia Berra's Punti di sospensione develops into a gigantic fleet of flying boats. Through the flight, a crucial attraction in her imagination, she explores the boundaries and reproducibility of Nature. Her boats are made of molting feathers of various birds of the color of the sky and the sea. It is a stubborn trip, a necessary and physiological migration projected into a mental horizon that combines individual and collective aspirations, hope and fears.
Punti di sospensione qualifies as a site-specific intervention that involves in an unprecedented way the sculptural practice in relation to space. Delicate and slender sculptures embody floating forms, ethereal and evanescent as the subtle shadows they cast. The artist, reiterating the vital and fragile plastic power and the ephemeral in nature, highlights the atavistic discrepancy between natural order and irrational mystery that animates it. This elusiveness dialogues by contrast with the classical ideal of Canova plaster casts, figures of Apollonian perfection.
Giulia Berra was born on the 3rd of April 1985 in Cremona (Italy), where she lives. She exposes in group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, developing projects deeply connected with architecture and historic contest. Her artistic research deals mainly with residual elements, found abandoned on the ground and patiently collected over several months. Nature is the starting point to make visions and metaphors about the contemporary period. She studies processes, biological cycles and their interactions, their limits.
Possagno is the home of the greatest neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, who left his art heritage in his own Birth-house and in the nearby Gipsoteca, that collects almost all his plaster cast models, terracotta scale models, drawings and paintings. Today the Canova Museum constitutes a necessary reference point for all the museums in the world that preserve the marble masterpieces, as the Musée du Louvre, the Ermitage of S. Petersburg, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, the Musei Vaticani.
Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
Via Canova 74
31054 Possagno (TV), Italy
24th September - 24th October 2016
Free admittance for Museum visitors
Visiting hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9.30-18.00
www.guerrieririzzardi.it
www.museocanova.it
Punti di sospensione
curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno -Treviso, Italy
24th September - 24th October 2016
From the 24th of September to the 24th of October, the Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova at Possagno (Italy) hosts to the solo exhibition of Giulia Berra, Punti di sospensione, curated by Fabio Carnaghi. The exhibition, dedicated by Fondazione Canova, is integral part of the prize awarded to the artist, the last winner of the Antonio Canova Sculpture Contest, competition promoted by the historic wine house Guerrieri Rizzardi.
Inspired by the winged figures of Canova, always suspended between life and death, Giulia Berra's Punti di sospensione develops into a gigantic fleet of flying boats. Through the flight, a crucial attraction in her imagination, she explores the boundaries and reproducibility of Nature. Her boats are made of molting feathers of various birds of the color of the sky and the sea. It is a stubborn trip, a necessary and physiological migration projected into a mental horizon that combines individual and collective aspirations, hope and fears.
Punti di sospensione qualifies as a site-specific intervention that involves in an unprecedented way the sculptural practice in relation to space. Delicate and slender sculptures embody floating forms, ethereal and evanescent as the subtle shadows they cast. The artist, reiterating the vital and fragile plastic power and the ephemeral in nature, highlights the atavistic discrepancy between natural order and irrational mystery that animates it. This elusiveness dialogues by contrast with the classical ideal of Canova plaster casts, figures of Apollonian perfection.
Giulia Berra was born on the 3rd of April 1985 in Cremona (Italy), where she lives. She exposes in group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, developing projects deeply connected with architecture and historic contest. Her artistic research deals mainly with residual elements, found abandoned on the ground and patiently collected over several months. Nature is the starting point to make visions and metaphors about the contemporary period. She studies processes, biological cycles and their interactions, their limits.
Possagno is the home of the greatest neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, who left his art heritage in his own Birth-house and in the nearby Gipsoteca, that collects almost all his plaster cast models, terracotta scale models, drawings and paintings. Today the Canova Museum constitutes a necessary reference point for all the museums in the world that preserve the marble masterpieces, as the Musée du Louvre, the Ermitage of S. Petersburg, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, the Musei Vaticani.
Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
Via Canova 74
31054 Possagno (TV), Italy
24th September - 24th October 2016
Free admittance for Museum visitors
Visiting hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9.30-18.00
www.guerrieririzzardi.it
www.museocanova.it
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