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To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle | Scale

Raphael Zarka, Retrospective of the first 22 Prismatics (Studio version), 2014. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris Raphael Zarka, Retrospective of the first 22 Prismatics (Studio version), 2014. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris Flavio Favelli, Maison (verde Alpi), 2005. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist Italo Zuffi, La replica, 2009. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and Pinksummer, Genova Nunzio, Untitled, 2011-14. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist Ute Muller, Untitled, 2014. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Scale. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Scale. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Scale. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Scale. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome Ute Muller, Untitled, 2014. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Scale. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Scale. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome Chiara Camoni, Luca ovvero San Giorgio e il Drago ovvero San Michele, 2010. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and SpazioA, Pistoia Bettina Buck, Two girls looking, 2009. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist Raphael Zarka, Retrospective of the first 22 Prismatics (Studio version), 2014. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni
Assistant curators Michela Tornielli and Stefano Vittorini

June 5th – July 25th, 2014
Nomas Foundation, viale Somalia 33, Rome

ARTISTS: Bettina Buck, Chiara Camoni, Attila Csörgö, Flavio Favelli, Marie Lund, Ute Müller, Nunzio, Raphaël Zarka, Italo Zuffi

The last chapter of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle , a research-based project inspired by a core group of works from the Nomas Foundation collection, focuses on issues of scale.
Scale is a term that here sums the different and possible ways in which to approach sculpture.
It refers to the relationship between work and sketch, which often efficiently conveys the artist’s practice, underlining the way issues such as matter, space and prospective are addressed.
It indicates size as an essential element for the creation of an object and for its perception, highlighting the dialogue between copy and original, model and work.
It draws the attention to the fact that of all the visual art forms, sculpture is the one which invests the body of the viewer as a term of comparison and measurement in connection to the work.
And finally, investigating the issue of scale, declined in the meanings just discussed, reveals the performative aspect that runs through contemporary sculpture, almost as if the loss of the centrality of the object could be translated in relationship and duration, spatiality and temporality.
To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle aims to build a dialogue between the present and the past, between Nomas Foundation and the narrative texture of the city. Scale’s public programme includes an itinerary through the city with artist Italo Zuffi, a studio visit with artist Nunzio, a performance by Bettina Buck, a lecture by Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, organised in collaboration with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna.
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.

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References:
On the occasion of the opening Playing with space and light, a talk with Olafur Eliasson presented in 2009 at an official TED conference will be shown.

In collaboration with: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Technical Sponsor: Whisper Systems


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