Exhibitions, Italy, Napoli, Nola, 22 October 2016
From 22 October to 4 November 2016, Nola will be hosting Alma Materia - The sculpture, inside and beyond the material, curated by Alessandra Frosini and Stefano Gagliardi.
The exhibition, held in the historical rooms of the Convento di S. Spirito - Ex Carceri di Nola complex (15th century), will consist of about 20 sculptures and installations, works by artists of international acclaim, chosen among those that are most representative for the materials used and for their particular creative approach: Annalù, Giuseppe Bergomi, Giorgio Bevignani, Aron Demetz, Michelangelo Galliani, Graziano Pompili and Matteo Tenardi. Alma materia (matter that nourishes, that generates life) intends to draw attention to the strengths that run through and strike the matter, and lead to the birth of the work of art.
It is a journey which crosses styles and groups, classifications and labels, and which finds its favourite fields of investigation in sculpture and installation, pursued as an interrogation of the matter. Starting from a reflection on the expressive qualities of different materials, which are revealed through the variable relationships between the artist’s interpretation and the adhesion, or otherwise, to the physical substance of things, we can learn about the complexity of the metamorphoses that take place during artistic creation. Attention is focused on presences and surfaces which tell of suspended atmospheres filled with suggestion: be they essential and lyrical, yelled or whispered, always far-removed from every technical and narrative complacency.
It traces the purest sources of artistic performance, where the importance of the subtle balance which unites natural and artificial is manifested and connects the original natural status of the matter with the artificiality of the reality created through art. During the event, but outside the venue, in various places throughout the town, there will be an exhibition with installations by the Cracking Art Group, marking the acquisition by the municipality of Nola of a permanent installation to be placed in one of the town’s squares.
The exhibition, held in the historical rooms of the Convento di S. Spirito - Ex Carceri di Nola complex (15th century), will consist of about 20 sculptures and installations, works by artists of international acclaim, chosen among those that are most representative for the materials used and for their particular creative approach: Annalù, Giuseppe Bergomi, Giorgio Bevignani, Aron Demetz, Michelangelo Galliani, Graziano Pompili and Matteo Tenardi. Alma materia (matter that nourishes, that generates life) intends to draw attention to the strengths that run through and strike the matter, and lead to the birth of the work of art.
It is a journey which crosses styles and groups, classifications and labels, and which finds its favourite fields of investigation in sculpture and installation, pursued as an interrogation of the matter. Starting from a reflection on the expressive qualities of different materials, which are revealed through the variable relationships between the artist’s interpretation and the adhesion, or otherwise, to the physical substance of things, we can learn about the complexity of the metamorphoses that take place during artistic creation. Attention is focused on presences and surfaces which tell of suspended atmospheres filled with suggestion: be they essential and lyrical, yelled or whispered, always far-removed from every technical and narrative complacency.
It traces the purest sources of artistic performance, where the importance of the subtle balance which unites natural and artificial is manifested and connects the original natural status of the matter with the artificiality of the reality created through art. During the event, but outside the venue, in various places throughout the town, there will be an exhibition with installations by the Cracking Art Group, marking the acquisition by the municipality of Nola of a permanent installation to be placed in one of the town’s squares.
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