SpazioA is proud to present on Saturday February 1, 2014 at 6pm, La Pazienza è virtù dei Manufatti, the third solo show by Chiara Camoni in Via Amati 13, Pistoia.

The show’s title alludes not only to the dedication and constancy with which certain works are made by hand, but also to the innate capacity of such works to last, mute and immobile, through the centuries. Handiwork stays where it is put, watching us in silence, and remains.

The “simulacrum” does not evoke any other underlying reality or other subject, but demands instead to be taken as real itself. In ancient times it indicated a divinity, an object of worship placed in a niche in a temple. Not a statue that represented something, but rather a statue that is something.

Il Bidestro reaches its identity in the process of creation, in the making: in this case, its being is the result of an error made repeatedly.

The technique used for its creation is the same by which vases are made: the statue, the vase, the cloak (Il Bidestro, Scultura #18, and Senza Titolo#15) are aligned on the same plane as things of the world among other objects of the world.

Senza Titolo#09, the wolf, or the dog, perhaps, takes its form from scrap. As in many of her works, Chiara Camoni works by layering and overlapping: the form is the result of a procedure enacted in time.

Essentially consisting of sculpture, the show is supported by a number of works on paper, Acquarelli, which by projecting outward from the walls, have become as objects the sites in which color is collected.

Chiara Camoni (Piacenza, 1974) graduated in Sculpture from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. For many years she has been the art director at the Institute of Natural Sciences and held conferences at the National Archaeological Museum in Neaples. Together with other artists she founded the MAGra Contemporary Art Museum of Granara and the group Vladivostok. She lives and works in Seravezza, in the Versilia Hills.

Selected exhibitions: Autoritratti, MAMbo, Bologna; Fig. 2: Natura Morta, GNAM, Roma; Un'idea di bellezza, CCC Strozzina, Firenze; Punti di vista. Identità, conflitti, mutamenti, Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza; Archéologies Contemporaines, Musée de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard; Certe Cose, Galleria SpazioA, Pistoia; Nell’ordine del discorso, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze; Vedere un Oggetto, Vedere la Luce, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Cuneo; Somiglianze non sensibili, Galerie Opdahl, Stavanger, Norvegia.

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Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 2pm and 3pm - 7pm
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Related images

  1. Chiara Camoni, La Pazienza è virtù dei Manufatti , 2014, veduta della mostra / exhibition view, Courtesy SpazioA, Pistoia
  2. Chiara Camoni, Senza Titolo, dittico, 2013, marmo, grafite su carta / marble, grafite on paper, cm 120,5 x 180 x 5, Courtesy SpazioA, Pistoia
  3. Chiara Camoni, La Pazienza è virtù dei Manufatti, 2014, veduta della mostra / exhibition view, Courtesy SpazioA, Pistoia
  4. Chiara Camoni, Scultura #18, 2013, terracotta bianca, pianta, terra / white clay, plant, soil, cm 43 x 18 x 17, Courtesy SpazioA, Pistoia
  5. Chiara Camoni, Senza Titolo #15, 2014, legno, terracotta, ferro / wood, clay, iron, cm 294 x 124 x 10, Courtesy SpazioA, Pistoia
  6. Chiara Camoni, La Pazienza è virtù dei Manufatti, 2014, veduta della mostra / exhibition view, Courtesy SpazioA, Pistoia