present, Saturday November 19, 2016,
6pm, The
story always comes later,
the fourth solo show of the artist Chiara
Camoni (1974, Piacenza, Italy),
in Via Amati 13, Pistoia.
Camoni, Self learning exercise, for Maria Rosa, June 2016)
of art maintains with reality. The works in this show also relate what happens
before them and what happens after, the creative process, and the story that
ensues.
part of the work – complete as it is in itself – but which seem to emerge
continually with irony and apprehension in the art of Chiara Camoni.
A story we are shown the steps in
the creation of a sculpture not featured in the show. The technical steps and
craftsmanship are overlapped by the sounds and thoughts of daily life providing
a continuous bass line in the background. Things head in the direction of the
work of art, but also towards a reflection on existence.
on their stands as all sculptures do while requesting to be taken in hand and
played at the same time. Their presence in space is enacted in the moment some
person enters into relationship with them, takes the position required by their
form, blows air inside, and produces a sound.
Titolo the great abstract
mother figure, we see only one of its possible forms. A creature that is both
soft and piercing at the same time, it can change continually; studying the
pattern of its spirals allows us to follow the narration of one of its many stories.
the story, as we know, always comes later, after the night has come to an end.
Chiara Camoni (1974, Piacenza,Italy)
graduated in Sculpture from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Selected
exhibitions: Anachronikos, CAC, Vilnius; Gli immediati dintorni, Nomas Foundation, Roma; Dall’oggi al domani, MACRO, Roma, 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. She lives and works in Seravezza,
in the Versilia Hills