PINACOTECA DEL MUSEO CIVICO
"ALA PONZONE"
Palazzo Affaitati
Via Ugolani Dati 4
tel. 0372/31222
critical text by Antonio Grulli
The young artists from the
Attraversarte group choose not to relate to a single work but
to the whole Museo Civico. The building seems to be made of pure spaces,
almost a locular organism that lives and can be lived within. A performance
enlivens each room and the works it contains, leaving at the end a durable
trace of its existence, since everything happens under surveillance cameras
that tape and forward the images to screens where we can watch the performance
taking place.Riccardo Orsoni chooses the Renaissance marble statue of
the Cavaspino as his element of comparison. From this statuette,
renowned especially for its plastic impact, he draws a pretext to focus
on mishap. Instead of the young boy that, while walking, pricks his foot
with a thorn, the artist depicts an old man that, while raking, ran up
against an antipersonnel mine that left him maimed. The artist points
out that new technologies have changed things to such an extent that nowadays
it is no longer enough to retreat wisely and cultivate one's garden in
order to keep away from the atrocities of contemporary society.The flow
of life is the central theme of Elisabetta Ricci's work.. The life of
Stradivari, portrayed by Alessandro Rinaldi as a romantic figure, almost
an alchemist with a phial in his hands, in a workshop that looks more
like a sorcerer's cave. A life he completely dedicated to music and to
the chiselling of his perfect instruments, seen as extraordinary embroideries,
with which they also have in common the preparatory drawings. And that's
what we find, a crocheted violin, made with the same thread the Parcae
are spinning, weaving and cutting.
