(S)Colpiti dalla crisi

(S)Colpiti dalla crisi is the collective of emerging sculptors, curated by Francesca Canfora, who faces a crisis in its most different and various aspects through the many languages ??of sculpture: the economic crisis, the crisis of values ??in contemporary society, personal and existential crisis.
(S)Colpiti dalla crisi, after the Centre of Contemporary Art Castello di Rivara, is in a highly symbolic and representative in the daily fight the crisis, through the commitment to assist firms Palace Birago, the institutional Chamber of commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture of Turin.
When the looming crisis develops a stimulus that leads to react to problems with more strength and determination. (S) Affected by the crisis carries with it a message: it means for everyone, and not just for the sculptors at the beginning, be put to the test in order to overcome the obstacles, with the result that come hardened and forged.
From research poetic very different, in the works of selected artists impression of the bottom, an anxiety shared: refuse and waste products of the industry are monumentalizzati; an angel of classical inspiration, bound and gagged, is locked up in a crate; traditional crafts, reshaped and revised in an unusual way, they become works of contemporary art; Human figures are locked and stored the same way as goods.
The imagery evoked so and return it, in some ways it might seem sinister and disturbing, it reveals, however - even in spite of the heavy material often used, such as marble - light, that shines through irony, always.
The artists in the exhibition: Daniel Accossato, Simone Benedict, Nazarene Blonde, Nicholas Borgese, Olivier Genre, Daniele Miola, Renato Sabatino, Valeria Vaccaro
Irony and play are essential elements of the sculptures and installations DANIELE ACCOSSATO. The artist combines the classical quote the irreverent spirit, mastery of technology to found objects, giving shape to unsettling plastic compositions. His works are always accompanied by a slight hint of unease, permeated by a sense of contradiction, unique in the world with which they are confronted. The sculptor gives expression to his inner self through the extrapolation of the subjects from their original context to put them in visions games, covered, however, by the latent anxiety.
Sculptor versatile in the choice of materials and techniques, such as SIMONE BENEDICT uses figurative language to address issues often related to social issues. His works are born from everyday life, from a critical perspective on the present showing the contradictions and problems of modern society and providing the viewer food for thought: do not give answers, but suggest questions. Strong point of the work of Simone Benedict is the continuous testing of materials, from the traditional to the more unusual. It is precisely the use of cement, resins and silicones that part of the search for an artist who reaches ever more effective the expression of their sensitivity investigating with great visual power issues deeply present as the relationship between man and fetish, contradictions and the constraints of a historical moment in which the subject tends more and more dangerously to replace the subject by creating a meeting point (clash?) and discussion with the audience.
From the marble, material and matrix of his sculptures, NAZARENO BLONDE reveals everyday objects in a search for formal perfection and conceptual elaboration. The great technical skills allow him to reach an icy hyper-realism with which it reproduces in detail weapons, waste and carcasses of contemporary society. The marble worked "by subtracting" contains in nuce the forms that reveal the artist through his ironic, but at the same time dramatically, to the world.
The interest in the anatomy part of the artistic work of NICOLÒ BORGESE, which created works in which osteology and myology going to blend in with the modern world and everyday life. Animals skinned, deprived of the epithelial layer, representing the search for a deeper knowledge of self that leads to accanirci against ourselves in an attempt to remove the outer rind that conceals from us and limits us, giving rise to a vicious circle between paradoxical desire for knowledge and self-harm.
Through sculpture, OLIVIER GENRE, sometimes with a direct and immediate approach, in other cases, more allusive, return an ideal relationship between man and nature. In a period of confusion and violence, or just violent confusion, the intent of his artistic research is to focus attention on the relationship between man and environment, taking as its theme the natural cycle of constant research, the only certainty of our lives and true protagonist of the contemporary world, it is threatened every day by increasing degradation product from the human being.
Even DANIELE Miola in her work explores the deeper relationship with nature and the earth, expressing this union through the exaltation of the purest essence of femininity. The moment of maximum splendor of the human body is fertile ready to create a new life, in reference to the goddess Venus and votive mater primordial era, where the female figure becomes a real "fetish" revered and feared.
The need is to create a revisiting of those who are the "icons" in the contemporary, where everything becomes a symbol and elicits stereotypes, and give back so in a sense a true value to things.
RENATO SABATINO uses different materials and techniques, from the processing of marble to bronze casting, sculpture in wood turning to the traditional pottery. It's just using the product made ??with the latter that gives rise to new shapes and possibilities, reshaping archetypes according to the dictates contemporary craft.
The flame, heat, and most importantly, combustion (as this acts on objects modified), are the subject of recurrent and persistent work of VALERIA Vaccaro. The fire is understood by the artist not only as a factor of destruction but also as a creative force, capable of generating transformations and shaping the material. It's amazing how the fire take hold always, in his works, on a material such as marble unexpected that, in turn, takes on different appearances deceiving even the most experienced eye.

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