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Rossella Biscotti. The Heads in Question

Rossella Biscotti, The Heads in Question. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Ela Bialkowska Rossella Biscotti, The Heads in Question. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Ela Bialkowska Rossella Biscotti, The Heads in Question. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Ph. Marco Bugionovi

Curated by Maria Rosa Sossai

April 4th - May 18th, 2009
Opening: Saturday, April 4th, 2009, at 7.00pm
Nomas Foundation, viale Somalia 33, Rome

On Saturday 4 April 2009, at 7.00pm, Nomas Foundation will be presenting The Heads in Question, an exhibition by Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Bari, 1978), specially created for the Foundation’s premises, and curated by Maria Rosa Sossai.
As in Rossella Biscotti’s previous works, the project calls for the use of archive material and an analysis of the relationships between artistic creativity and its historical context.
In the archive research she carried out during a stay in Rome , Rossella Biscotti and the artist Kevin van Braak discovered five bronze sculptures portraying the heads of King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini. These were made by the sculptors Giovanni Prini and Domenico Rambelli for the Universal Exhibition of Rome in 1942 – which was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War – which were never shown to the public.
The Heads in the Question elaborates on studies that the artist has been working on in recent years, and consists of a journey in three stages, which enters the very heart of the idea of performance, absence, and encounter.
The project starts with the journey of the five bronzes from the storage rooms of the Palazzo degli Uffici at EUR through to their arrangement in the premises of the Nomas Foundation, where they will stay on show for a week. After this, the Foundation will display a trace of their passing: a large photo of the heads installed in the exhibition space, and other documentary material.
On May 18, the journey will end with a performance by the artist and the presentation of the exhibition catalogue. A wooden platform will form a tangible architectural element to allow the public and the artist to engage in a real meeting, sharing the process of discovery of something that has long been buried and unknown to anyone.
The dialogue between the classical monumentality of the heads and the modern architecture of the platform highlights not only the way the relationship between artists and patrons has changed, but also the function of works of art in different socio-cultural contexts.

In collaboration with EUR S.p.A.


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