Organized by the Bonomo Gallery, Turin, Sculture da Camera (Chamber Sculptures), is a travelling exhibition meant to explore international contemporary art through the work of artists with an affinity to the cultural trend of the Gallery. Displaying only small-scale, indoor sculptures by over sixty international artists, the DESTE Foundation has co-organized the presentation of this show in Athens at the House of Cyprus.
Sculture da Camera originates from a desire to follow the path of art through fairytale imagery making the illustrations from Alice in Wonderland a continuously, vital emblem of the show. The indoor sculptures, presented in basic proportions combined with color, movement, and sound, deliberately avoid every reference to traditional monumentality. They allow the observer to reflect and respond to them in such a way that the unique individuality of each work interrelates with his own aesthetic sensibility. Aiming to capture the intensity and dynamism of each object, the artists allow the myths of power to collapse together with the monuments that represent them. Art, though shattered, survives within the monuments as countless, energy-charged particles.
First shown at the Swabian Castle in Bari, the exhibition has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Utrecht, the United Nations Building in Geneva organized by the Centre d’Art Contemporain, and in Spoleto within the exhibitions of the XXXI Festival of the Two Worlds. After Athens, the show will travel to Los Angeles to be shown at the Fisher Gallery in the University of Southern California. Though the initial project is continuously evolving, enriched each time by the presence of new artists at each host center, the harmonic coherence of the exhibition remains unchanged.
Sculture da Camera is supported by the Regione Puglia – Assessorato alla Cultura.
