On Thursday the 10th May at 18.30, CERRUTI ARTE inaugurates “Sculture”, anthological personal exposition of Franco Fienga, result of the collaboration with FRAC Baronissi museum, where recently the artist has presented an expo of his most up-to-date works. In Genoa you it is possible to see the sculptures and drawings created by the artist in the latest ten years: monumental works made of iron and steel, materials present also in smaller works with wax insertions or plaster blocks and, at last, carbon drawings on paper. The colours of the mentioned materials are not modified to let the spectator appreciate their real essence and their tactility. At 18.30 of Friday 18th May, Cerruti Arte will be the background of a conversation about modern sculpture and Fienga’s work between Enrico Crispolti, Massimo Bignardi ( Siena University) and Erminio Risso (Genoa University). “The overtaking of the matter – as Enrico Crispolti writes in the introduction of the catalogue published in this occasion – as constitutive condition for the plastic event is the guide of Fienga’s work of these first years of 2000, that means that he has discovered a new way to work on both the values of metallic materials, and the total conformation of the plastic object, which face indeed a three-dimensional constitution, just while metal shows, through a radical polishing and smoothing, a power as much constructive, as evocative, through the dialectic process of reflections.” Massimo Bignardi observes: “Fienga’s sculpture is arrived to a fine composition of the surfaces, played on the most minuscule passages of luminosity, left to spread out on curved surfaces, on a light relief, capable to receive the small reflecting concavities, geometric protrusions which accelerate the “cheating” process, common also in the sculptures dating back to the last Nineties. With regard to works as “L’orto della mia carne” (1996), “Memoria” (1997), RA (1998, monumental circular sculpture made of patinated iron, exhibited at “Triplozero. New orientations of young art in Italy”, that I cured in the Antichi Arsenali of Amalfi, in the autumn of 1998), I would underline how much Fienga’s work moved a fine thread, using the connection between shape and material, where the first one has the role of matrix imposed by the hands, that is not, according to Focillon, the desire of action, but the action itself”.
| From | 10/05/2007 to 07/06/2007 |
| (open time) | martedì/sabato 9.30/12.30 e 15.30/19.30 |
| Vernissage: | 10/05/2007 at time 18.30. |
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