The great sculpture returns to the Stelline Foundation with the exhibition Maria Cristina Carlini The strength of ideas, curated by Vittoria Coen. It is a prestigious new solo show presented in the Collector's Room and in the evocative Magnolia Cloister: from May 5 to June 12, 2022 indoors and until September 30 outdoors, monumental sculptures along with works of small and large dimensions come to life in an exhibition path that stems from the artist's fluidity of thought and brings together numerous unpublished works in a crescendo of emotions.
"We are very pleased to host this solo exhibition of the sculptor Maria Cristina Carlini," emphasizes the president of the Stelline Foundation PierCarla Delpiano, "because sculpture is the art form that best allows us to express the full potential of our venue, enabling a dialogue between different exhibition spaces. Carlini's works, in fact, are exhibited in the Collector's Room and, open air, in the evocative Magnolia Cloister."
The selection of exhibited works expresses the strength and tenacity of the artist's journey and her ideas with which she shapes matter, but also space and time, transforming them into universal sculpture, giving form, as the curator states, "to the magic of a score aimed at creating a unique concert of cosmic vibrations." Maria Cristina Carlini deepens her bond with the earth and natural materials, ancient symbols capable of evoking ancestral memories often dormant, making individual and collective memory a key point of her poetics.
The exhibition path opens with "Shields", an installation from 1998 never exhibited before, composed of three tall iron poles interrupted by polychrome modules that take on an intimate and ancient totemic value.