Daniela Baldelli
06 Feb - 27 Mar 2010
DANIELA BALDELLI
"Dire e fare in mezzo al mare"
06.02. – 27.03.2010
Opening 5 February 2010, 7 p.m.
CIRCUS is pleased to announce the first solo project of artist Daniela Baldelli. Born in Asmara/Ethiopia as the daughter of Italian emigrants and grown up partly in Italy and Africa, Daniela Baldelli affiliates in her work biographical elements with her sculptural and installational practice. Following anthological principles, her arrangements and installations formulate a poetically open proposition on geographical and cultural identity, personal dislocation, reminiscence and transformation.
In her present exhibition »Dire e fare in mezzo al mare« a white curtain, voluminously extending onto the floor and literally floating into the space, creates an introspective situation where the attempt to locate a visual place of contemplation outweighs the necessity for a predefined reading. Inside the space, the spectator follows the rhythm of a playful constellation of mundane objects and small, hand-crafted porcelain and wax sculptures, which in juxtaposition seem to dissolve the disparity of artefact and everyday object.
Although being arranged on the floor on the outer edge of the walls the sculptures and objects fill the space with their presence and unleash a visual and at the same time personal narrative. »Palmen« (palm trees) or »Bäume ohne Wurzeln« (trees without roots) are just a few titles of the miniature porcelain sculptures, which originate from the consistent moulding gesture of the artist’s hands onto the pliable material. The archetypical forms thus coming into existence are assigned only ex post a figurative meaning or interpretation.
Besides the use of finds from the familial past and the immediate personal surrounding Baldelli’s sculptural process itself seems to become an allegory of continuous transformation and alteration – she once said about her own artistic approach that it would be like ‘bidding farewell through the act of showing’. As much as Baldelli selects and removes objects from their original context and interprets them anew, she endorses the reincorporation of the objects and/or sculptures back into an everyday scenario once withdrawn from the temporary exhibition situation. Her work thus opens up for the changing and transformative nature of life, and, by merging the present and the past simultaneously projects an undefined future moment.
"Dire e fare in mezzo al mare"
06.02. – 27.03.2010
Opening 5 February 2010, 7 p.m.
CIRCUS is pleased to announce the first solo project of artist Daniela Baldelli. Born in Asmara/Ethiopia as the daughter of Italian emigrants and grown up partly in Italy and Africa, Daniela Baldelli affiliates in her work biographical elements with her sculptural and installational practice. Following anthological principles, her arrangements and installations formulate a poetically open proposition on geographical and cultural identity, personal dislocation, reminiscence and transformation.
In her present exhibition »Dire e fare in mezzo al mare« a white curtain, voluminously extending onto the floor and literally floating into the space, creates an introspective situation where the attempt to locate a visual place of contemplation outweighs the necessity for a predefined reading. Inside the space, the spectator follows the rhythm of a playful constellation of mundane objects and small, hand-crafted porcelain and wax sculptures, which in juxtaposition seem to dissolve the disparity of artefact and everyday object.
Although being arranged on the floor on the outer edge of the walls the sculptures and objects fill the space with their presence and unleash a visual and at the same time personal narrative. »Palmen« (palm trees) or »Bäume ohne Wurzeln« (trees without roots) are just a few titles of the miniature porcelain sculptures, which originate from the consistent moulding gesture of the artist’s hands onto the pliable material. The archetypical forms thus coming into existence are assigned only ex post a figurative meaning or interpretation.
Besides the use of finds from the familial past and the immediate personal surrounding Baldelli’s sculptural process itself seems to become an allegory of continuous transformation and alteration – she once said about her own artistic approach that it would be like ‘bidding farewell through the act of showing’. As much as Baldelli selects and removes objects from their original context and interprets them anew, she endorses the reincorporation of the objects and/or sculptures back into an everyday scenario once withdrawn from the temporary exhibition situation. Her work thus opens up for the changing and transformative nature of life, and, by merging the present and the past simultaneously projects an undefined future moment.