At the National Gallery in Rome the project polvere polvere, solo exhibition of Carolina Saquel

On Wednesday, May 22, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art inaugurates polvere polvere, a site-specific project by Chilean artist Carolina Saquel coordinated by Alessio Boi.
6 medium and large video installations (including triptychs, diptychs and films, placed on the wall or on the floor) tell the story of the plastic research undertaken by the artist in 2014 at theArdia di San Costantino, the centuries-old event held every year in Sedilo, in the center of Sardinia, on the evening of July 6 and the next day at the crack of dawn. A wild race of horsemen who between two wings of the crowd demonstrate skill, temerity and balentia along a circuit that reaches the Sanctuary and church of San Costantino.

Observing the mountain of dust raised by the horse race gave the exhibition its title and raised questions about how to film such a ritual today and what are the figurative and abstract limits of recording. The use of lightweight sports cameras placed on the bodies of the horses and riders capture from unusual angles the interaction of the bodies at speed: from the riders’ legs, from the horses’ backs, from the muscles in exertion, through the dust raised. The result is a journey into the equestrian world in which the tools and moments filmed (the object, the character, or the action) are not separate. They operate together and bring each other to life.
The sequences exhibited at the National Gallery are a selection of the material filmed over three years. They are unedited fragments of recordings obtained during the Ardia and its preparations; filmed rehearsals that experiment with speed, composition and meaning. These images years later led to the making of the films All of Counterpoint (2018) and Paso Galope (2018), both of which are on display in the exhibition.

Carolina Saquel(Concepcion, Chile, 1970) lives and works in Paris. A graduate in Social and Legal Sciences from the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, she began working as a lawyer in 1994. In 1995 she joined the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Católica de Santiago. His days are thus divided doing art in the morning and law in the afternoon, until he decides to stop working as a lawyer to devote himself to the Escuela de Artes. Her work has been presented at film and video festivals in solo and group exhibitions (París: Kadist Art Foundation, Grand Palais, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton - Barcelona Fundació Joan Miro - Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canadá - MAMCS Strasbourg - Bloomberg Space, Londres - Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart). From December 2018 to January 2019 he exhibits in the Gabriela Mistral Gallery in Santiago, Chile, the exhibition Repetir hacia adelante, which shows part of his project made in Sardinia.

The National Gallery is a partner of the CSIO of Rome Piazza di Siena , and on Wednesday, May 22, at 2:30 p.m., on the occasion of the presentation of the Italian representative team, it will be the venue for the traditional press meeting. The public of the Concorso Ippico Internazionale di Roma - Piazza di Siena, for the duration of the event will be entitled to the museum ticket reduced to €2.

For all information you can visit the official website of the National Gallery.

At the National Gallery in Rome the project polvere polvere, solo exhibition of Carolina Saquel

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