A widespread exhibition on global warming and climate change in Pavia

Through June 12, 2022, the exhibition Global Warming by Marzio Cialdi, curated by Valerio Dehò and divided into three venues, is on view in Pavia ’s historic center: Church of Santa Maria Gualtieri, Victory Square, Spazio Arti Contemporanee and the Broletto courtyard.

About fifteen works, including environmental installations, sculptures, including large-scale ones, and videos are intended to raise public awareness of global warming and climate change. The artist’s expressive research thus confronts the emergencies and changes of the contemporary world.

The works in the exhibition have been created over the past three years, using different languages and materials, from ceramics to corten steel, from glass to printed sheet metal.

Global Warming aims to depict a dystopian world, imagining a universe altered by high temperatures, a warped world in which the most solid materials are attacked by the increasingly uncontrollable climate. In the installation Pompeii, for example, the viewer seems to witness an archaeological discovery, fragments of a past surfacing after the catastrophe. The series of works Mechanical Movements also gives the idea of a force dragging toward a negative solution, steel tracks metaphorically pushing events toward inevitable climate change. Also present are poetic works that evoke moments of reflection, such as Kafa, a sculpture in which unknown gods of a world to come appear.

The artist’s gaze intends to embrace contemporary man in his problems, to send warning signals for a future that has already begun. In the Church of Santa Maria Gualtieri, the video documenting the suffering of nature and the assault on the ecosystem is the backdrop of collapsed glass, of a Disk of Time that collects fragments of dispersed civilizations.

"Recently the term Artivism, a mix of art and social activism, has been used for a type of art engaged with widespread, humanitarian issues,“ the curator explains. ”The artist’s vision is a cry of alarm that is associated with those in society who are fighting for the climate and the prevention of a catastrophe that seems to be announcing itself on the planet. Art also contributes to creating a critical awareness of the uncontrolled industrial development that increasingly threatens planet Earth."

Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m.; Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Free admission.

Image: Marzio Cialdi, Metamorphosis (2021; ceramic, dimensions variable)

A widespread exhibition on global warming and climate change in Pavia

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