Aron Demetz comes to St. Christopher's Church in Lucca with solo exhibition Art Beat

From June 11 to July 11, 2021, the church of San Cristoforo in Lucca will host a solo exhibition by South Tyrolean sculptor Aron Demetz (Sterzing, 1972) entitled Art Beat. Demetz, one of Italy’s leading contemporary sculptors and among the world’s top artists of wood sculpture, arrives in Tuscany with an exhibition specially conceived for the spaces of the marvelous Romanesque church on Via Fillungo, with a respectful exhibition itinerary calibrated to the architectural and ritual dimensions of the religious building.

The exhibition, curated by Mauro Daniele Lucchesi and Alessandro Romanini, and promoted by the Quattro Coronati Cultural Association, revolves around a multimedia installation of monumental dimensions(AraCor or the Echo of Ashes, measuring 515 x 345 x 110 cm), a charred wooden altar “powered” by a video that reproduces a beating heart that spreads its amplified beat throughout the church’s spaces. The installation, complemented by seven other sculptures made of various materials and in various sizes, punctuates an exhibition itinerary that, in line with the poetics that has made Demetz internationally famous, aims to promote in the viewer a reflection that goes beyond mere contemplation. The title “Art Beat” (a pun in English between “heartbeat” and “art beat”) refers to a hypothetical “art beat” that can be likened to a vital pulse of a heart. In the exhibition, the various forms of expression, and particularly the plastic ones, contribute greatly, in this specific socio-historical conjuncture characterized by distancing, to restoring an enthusiasm and a drive for collegial relationship and contact, as well as the enhancement of the dimension of thought and spiritual.

Aron Demetz arrives with his project for the church of San Cristoforo in Lucca after a series of important exhibitions in public and private spaces, both nationally and internationally. Over the past few years Demetz’s works have been hosted in spaces such as the Macro Museum in Rome, the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, the Ducan Gallery in Leipzig, Canary Wharf in London, the Zilart space in Moscow, Pac in Milan, the National University Museum in Taiwan, the Terreno Baldio Gallery in Mexico City, the Museum of Modern Art in Cluj, and the Lavazza Museum in Turin. In 2020, a monument dedicated to Ötzi, the famous Similaun mummy, opened in downtown Bolzano. The Lucca exhibition is also an opportunity to take a closer look at Demetz’s works, which for many years have been identified by critics and academic figures as the perfect synthesis between expertise in formal realization and the dimension of conceptual elaboration, deepened not only through his artistic experience, but also through continuous study and his teaching activities at Fine Arts Academies such as Carrara and Venice.

“Demetz’s sculptures in the church of San Cristoforo,” explain Mauro Daniele Lucchesi and Alessandro Romanini, “represent at the same time both formally and thematically a reflection on the human figure and on the ritual-spiritual figure, declined in various materials. Tied in various ways to that archetypal Jungian dimension, closely connected to the collective memory, a receptacle of values in which all humanity recognizes itself, the works amplify their impact disproportionately, dialoguing synergistically with the architecture of the church, enhancing the spiritual atmosphere of the whole.”

The exhibition is free admission and opens Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Access will be in compliance with anti-Covid regulations with mandatory use of mask, spacing and hand sanitizing. For information tel: 3791855725 - 3922390750, Facebook page Four Crowned Association, e-mail: a.q.coronati@gmail.com.

Pictured: part of the exhibition

Aron Demetz comes to St. Christopher's Church in Lucca with solo exhibition Art Beat

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