To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle | Matter
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Matter. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Matter. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
Diego Perrone, I pensatori di buchi, 2002. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy Nomas Foundation. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
Helena HladilovĂ , Scultura sonora, 2013. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and CO2, Turin. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Matter. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
Timur Si Qin, TM1517 (Paranthropus Robustus): dressed in pool water, 2013. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and Fluxia, Milan. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Matter. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Matter. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
Chiara Camoni, Untitled, L'esercito di terracotta #02. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and SpazioA, Pistoia. Ph. Damiano Minozzi
Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni
Assistant curators Michela Tornielli and Stefano Vittorini
February 26th – April 5th, 2014
Nomas Foundation, viale Somalia 33, Rome
ARTISTS: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Rossella Biscotti, Chiara Camoni, William Cobbing, Michael Dean, Luisa Gardini, Helena Hladilová, Oliver Laric, Else Leirvik, Nicola Pecoraro, Diego Perrone, Timur Si-Qin, Jesse Wine
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle continues Nomas Foundation’s ongoing investigation on visual art’s languages, following A Theatre Cycle, 2013; A Painting Cycle, 2012; A Film Cycle, 2011; A Performance Cycle, 2010.
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle is a research-based project inspired by a core group of works from the Nomas Foundation collection, which focuses on sculpture, organised in three chapters, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the medium. Through itineraries around the city, a public programme of lectures in collaboration with Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, visits to artists studios and specific collections, To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle aims to build a dialogue between the present and the past, between the Foundation and the narrative texture of the city.
Matter, the first episode of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, is inspired by the famous series of lectures held by Rudolf Wittkower at Cambridge University in 1970-71. The aim of these lectures, was to examine works on the basis of the working methods used by the artists, while also seeking out lines of continuity and rupture throughout the history of art, from the Archaic period to the present day. In a similar manner, this first episode looks at how works are made, and how their material presence determines their appearance and the way they are perceived. The solid and the void, to carve or to shape, are still the constituent elements of sculpture today – whether the artist works with traditional materials or whether he inscribes the form within a space, or even when giving shape to data, images and sounds that constitute a new and potential matter.
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On the occasion of the opening a rare documentary dedicated to the Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso, realised for the RAI in 1959 by Alberto Martini, historian and art critic, will be shown.
In collaboration with: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Technical Sponsor: Whisper System