“Sculpture Nature. East West” is the title of the important international exhibition set up in the ancient park of the Ducal Castle of Agliè, from June 1st to October 12th. The event, organized by Luciano Caramel, widens its cosmopolitan scope and collects works of contemporary authors from everywhere. The selection had been focused on the link between nature and sculpture, as well as the influences that so different origins and traditions have on everyone’s creativity. Sculptures and installations spring up, and several among them created right for the event.
Thus goes on, with renewed enthusiasm, the two-year “International Sculture at Agliè” exhibition, promoted by the Piedmont Region and organized by the Piedmont’s Art Association, with the help of the Superintendency of Architectural and Landscape Assets of Piedmont, and the support offered by the Compagnia di San Paolo.
The event pays homage to a pair of artists, whose presence is nowadays still very significant: Nam June Paik (Seoul 1932 - Miami 2006) and Joseph Beuys (Krefeld 1921 - Düsseldorf 1986).
Western works by:
Eastern works by:
Sculpture is thus reestablished as prominent in the contemporary art panorama. Its link with nature is investigated and provides new stimulus to the relation between the grandiose architecture of the castle and its own XVIII c. statues in the park.
The goal is to join East and West by means of works from renown international artists, so to compare traditions apparently different but eager to highlight the conflicts and mutations caused by a “stepmother” Nature.
Environmental pollution is investigated with great sensitivity. Glass, wood, granite and steel, in several ways, are used to make creations inspired by the deeper and deeper damages inflicted to nature by man.
Luciano Caramel comments: “unlike the usual trend in park and garden exhibitions - most of them driven by the use of environmental charm to enliven decorations, furnishing and artworks – this one investigates the relation sculpture-to-nature in authors different for aims, sensibilities and roots, between the goethian “art is art, not nature” on the one side, and Norman de Vries’s fascinating and provocative “beaux arbres – beaux arts””.
In the suggestive scenario of the XVIII c. Savoy residence in the hills of Canavese, summer holiday retreat of the Royal Family at the gates of Turin, the reknown TV serial “Elisa di Rivombrosa” had been shot.
The complete exhibition catalogue features essays by Luciano Caramel, Giovanni Cordero, Daniela Biancolini and Barbara Tuzzolino.
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