Carrara | 17.06.05

The city of Carrara is getting ready to host another important artistic event: at Palazzo Binelli from June 25th to July 31st will take place the exhibition “Il disegno della scultura contemporanea da Fontana a Paladino” arranged by Municipality of Carrara in cooperation with Carlo Repetto (who works for “Repetto e Massucco” Gallery in Acqui Terme) and Walter Guadagnini.
The exhibition means to put together two terms, sculpturing and drawing: for some centuries they had well-defined characteristics and specificities but during the XX century they knew important changes that have questioned the very existence of a unique definition of “sculpture” and a unique definition of “draw”. The aim of this event is to analyse and highlights those changes, through the presentation of the work o­n paper of some of the most important Italian artists of the XX century who have marked a new and fruitful season of Italian sculpture. The exhibition put together artists of the calibre of Fontana (represented by a series of drawings about the legendary “space places” of the ‘50s), Melotti (with works where the skill of projecting and the poetry go at the same rate), Marino, Colla, (who played a leading role in the renewal of Italian art in the years immediately after the end of Second World War) to go along a way that touches figures as Ceroli (with the big study for the sculpture “Il Piper”), Ruffi, Uncini (the main figures in the first ‘60s, between Pop Art and New Abstraction) to arrive to Merz, Pistoletto (represented by their projects for the “fountain-sculpture”) Kounellis, Fabro, Zorio (with a big “Canoa1”), Piacentino, Anselmo (with his “Particolari di infinito2”), Spagnulo, Mattiacci, Nagasawa, Icaro (the leaders of the “poor art” movement that have given new international importance to the vicissitudes of the Italian art since the ‘70s).
The exhibition reaches our times with the presence of artists as Paladino (with a series of papers about the great sculpture “A Sud”), Mainolfi, Nunzio and very young sculptors as Di Giovanni e Sassolino, to witness a kind of continuity in works and thoughts with an extraordinary level of quality. The main feature of the exhibition is the skill to read this event through the privileged means of drawing that, as sculpturing, has changed its nature and destiny: from a mere planning sketch and from a plan for the main opera, it has become an independent and fundamental practice in these artist’s poetics. Nowadays the draw is a well-constructed work that can have remarkable sizes and be made of different materials. Then, this exhibition will be a kind of “plan”, extremely spectacular: it will be able to let the exhibition-goers get into the artist’s workshop, in the most secret place of their studio, where they hide their ideas that later become images. In order to fulfil these premises the exhibition will present above all works of art with big sizes: most of them have been chosen with the artists, in order to turn the rooms of Palazzo Binelli into “wonder-rooms”, where marks take a solid form and sheets become spaces of an infinite experimentation. There will be at least two works for every artist in order to represent both their drawing skills and their link with sculpturing: these pieces of art come from public and private collections and have a central position (as regards both dating and quality) in every artist’s way. There will be a bilingual catalogue as well, containing the images in colour of all works of the exhibition and the biographies of the artists as well: the introduction has been written by Walter Guadagnini, who has arranged the event.

Info: Ufficio Cultura 0585/641394
Inauguration: June 25th at 18.00 at Palazzo Binelli
Seat: Palazzo Binelli, Carrara
Visiting hours: 10.30-12.30 and 18.00-23.00
Closed o­n Mondays