Exhibitions, Germany, Köln, 06 May 2011
Invited by Luc de Groof, Artistic Director of Die Kunstgalerie, the artist is presenting some selected works, resulting from her more recent artistic research: LIGHT ZAPPING, MEMORIE FRIVOLE, MEMORIE TIEPIDE, AVANZI CONNIVENTI. The sense of loss of reference points that permeates our contemporary world underlies this series of works - all belonging to the CONATIONS cycle. The artist translates it into a mass of clippings from magazines reproduced and curled into cones, assembled and closely arranged to form scenographic installations. At first sight, they may appear as informal, garish, and redundant creations, in spite of their basic monochromies. Actually, they are huge iconographic archives of our times, duly fragmented, decontextualized, and with changed meanings. These installations produce a different emotional impact when placed against different background colours that dominate the scene, irrespective of the conceptual contents of their iconographic matchings. With a more careful look, one may feel the irony, drama, criticism, dissent, and, sometimes, the loss of meaning: frivolous (pink), lukewarm (white), visceral (red), chaotic (multicoloured scraps).
ICEBERGS are more recent creations: a pavé of transparent silicon rubber cones, with the colour and texture of ice, interspersed with frozen polychromous iconographic fragments; the lack of colour continuity of the fragments, interlaced with the transparency of support material, reminds of the separation between the different aspects of reality that features our contemporary world. Another recent work is MEMORIE DI PAMPINI, where images, at intervals, dissolve into the vine-shaped twisting of minutely cut films, partially suffocating images, like parasitic plants. A brand new work, specially created for this exhibition, is the installation NE HO VISTE DI TUTTI I COLORI, RIPETUTAMENTE. It features 7 serially arranged pieces in different sizes, where a background of virgin X-ray films – blank but with different colours - supports a tangled and frantic flow of fragmented pictures of human bodies posed over a transparent vacuum. The bodies printed on tiny curled strips of look-through acetate retain only a very tenuous link with the multicoloured background on which they move: a sign of the increasing impermanence of our times.
Cosmic Pessimism?
Not at all! Simply disillusioned realization and a feeling of depersonalization already expressed by the artist in the past in a nursery rhyme she invented, epitomizing the poetics of her research since her early works:…………ediogiocandomisonopersocercandoilversodell’universoediogiocandomisonopersocercandoilversodell’universoediogiocandomisonopersocercandoilversodell’universo……………
(IN-MY-PLAY-I-GOT-LOST-IN-THE-SEARCH-OF-THE-VERSE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-IN-MY-PLAY-I-GOT-LOST-IN-THE-SEARCH-OF-THE-VERSE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-IN-MY-PLAY-I-GOT-LOST-IN-THE-SEARCH-OF-THE-VERSE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-)
ICEBERGS are more recent creations: a pavé of transparent silicon rubber cones, with the colour and texture of ice, interspersed with frozen polychromous iconographic fragments; the lack of colour continuity of the fragments, interlaced with the transparency of support material, reminds of the separation between the different aspects of reality that features our contemporary world. Another recent work is MEMORIE DI PAMPINI, where images, at intervals, dissolve into the vine-shaped twisting of minutely cut films, partially suffocating images, like parasitic plants. A brand new work, specially created for this exhibition, is the installation NE HO VISTE DI TUTTI I COLORI, RIPETUTAMENTE. It features 7 serially arranged pieces in different sizes, where a background of virgin X-ray films – blank but with different colours - supports a tangled and frantic flow of fragmented pictures of human bodies posed over a transparent vacuum. The bodies printed on tiny curled strips of look-through acetate retain only a very tenuous link with the multicoloured background on which they move: a sign of the increasing impermanence of our times.
Cosmic Pessimism?
Not at all! Simply disillusioned realization and a feeling of depersonalization already expressed by the artist in the past in a nursery rhyme she invented, epitomizing the poetics of her research since her early works:…………ediogiocandomisonopersocercandoilversodell’universoediogiocandomisonopersocercandoilversodell’universoediogiocandomisonopersocercandoilversodell’universo……………
(IN-MY-PLAY-I-GOT-LOST-IN-THE-SEARCH-OF-THE-VERSE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-IN-MY-PLAY-I-GOT-LOST-IN-THE-SEARCH-OF-THE-VERSE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-IN-MY-PLAY-I-GOT-LOST-IN-THE-SEARCH-OF-THE-VERSE-OF-THE-UNIVERSE-)
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