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Art Consulting (04.11.2017 20:46)
Cristiana de Marchi.
La Sindrome di Penelope.
Fusion Art Gallery, Torino, ottobre 2017.
The solo exhibition follows Cristiana de Marchi’s recent artistic trajectory, by presenting a body of selected works created between 2011 and 2017. Of Italian origins but settled in the Middle East since more than 20 years, Cristiana’s interests move between literature, politics and social commitment, all themes that are explored through her practice, mostly consisting in embroideries and textiles, video, performance, and installations.
In particular, by adopting the use of textiles as her privileged expressive medium, the artist focusses on the role of political concepts including ‘Religion’ and ‘Nationhood’, which are meant as vehicles for a personal reflection about identity issues. These purely conventional concepts include some of the essential themes, the core questions, investigated by the woman and the artist.
The considerations introduced by de Marchi’s works couldn’t be more actual and provide interesting key to an understanding: for instance, a balloon, blown to its own limit, becomes a metaphor for the human role in the creation and successive destruction of universal ideals such as Freedom, Fraternity and Equality; or a white, monochrome Europe focusses the attention on the question of geographic boundaries and of their implications and consequences, as they are the result of human arbitrariness. And again, Cristiana’s Black series forces the viewer to notice the widespread condition of “cultural blindness”, of superficiality, which both afflicts our societies as they face essential questions, yet uneasy or difficult to understand, accept and incorporate.
In her practice the WORD plays an essential role: not only in its simple semantic value but as an integral part of the work, an element made physically present and tangible through the very use of textiles. Material and nominal presence that becomes a tool to manifest messages, prophecies and epiphanies for the viewer. Implicitly the audience is invited to not only visually experience the works, but to interact and engage with the surfaces, to search for their hidden meanings besides and beyond their perfectly visible ones. One will then notice the plot through the weave, the game of symbolic and linguistic connections, which suggests the multiple layers of belonging surfacing onto Italy’s national flag.
Cristiana de Marchi.
La Sindrome di Penelope.
Fusion Art Gallery, Torino, ottobre 2017.
The solo exhibition follows Cristiana de Marchi’s recent artistic trajectory, by presenting a body of selected works created between 2011 and 2017. Of Italian origins but settled in the Middle East since more than 20 years, Cristiana’s interests move between literature, politics and social commitment, all themes that are explored through her practice, mostly consisting in embroideries and textiles, video, performance, and installations.
In particular, by adopting the use of textiles as her privileged expressive medium, the artist focusses on the role of political concepts including ‘Religion’ and ‘Nationhood’, which are meant as vehicles for a personal reflection about identity issues. These purely conventional concepts include some of the essential themes, the core questions, investigated by the woman and the artist.
The considerations introduced by de Marchi’s works couldn’t be more actual and provide interesting key to an understanding: for instance, a balloon, blown to its own limit, becomes a metaphor for the human role in the creation and successive destruction of universal ideals such as Freedom, Fraternity and Equality; or a white, monochrome Europe focusses the attention on the question of geographic boundaries and of their implications and consequences, as they are the result of human arbitrariness. And again, Cristiana’s Black series forces the viewer to notice the widespread condition of “cultural blindness”, of superficiality, which both afflicts our societies as they face essential questions, yet uneasy or difficult to understand, accept and incorporate.
In her practice the WORD plays an essential role: not only in its simple semantic value but as an integral part of the work, an element made physically present and tangible through the very use of textiles. Material and nominal presence that becomes a tool to manifest messages, prophecies and epiphanies for the viewer. Implicitly the audience is invited to not only visually experience the works, but to interact and engage with the surfaces, to search for their hidden meanings besides and beyond their perfectly visible ones. One will then notice the plot through the weave, the game of symbolic and linguistic connections, which suggests the multiple layers of belonging surfacing onto Italy’s national flag.
Valentina Capizzi (05.02.2017 21:07)
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