Maria Cristina Carlini's solo exhibition at Fondazione Stelline features monumental sculptures and new works

At the Stelline Foundation in Milan, Maria Cristina Carlini ’s solo exhibition entitled La forza delle idee, curated by Vittoria Coen, will be on display from May 5 to June 12, 2022 in the Collector’s Room and Magnolia Cloister, and until September 30, 2022 only in the Magnolia Cloister. Monumental sculptures will be exhibited along with small and large works, with many previously unseen works.

The selection of works in the exhibition aims to express the strength and tenacity of the artist’s path and her ideas with which she shapes matter. As the curator states, Maria Cristina Carlini shapes “the magic of a score aimed at creating a unique concert of cosmic vibrations.” She deepens her own connection with the earth and natural materials, archaic symbols that bring back ancestral memories, making individual and collective memory one of the key points of her poetics.

The exhibition begins with Shields, a 1998 installation never exhibited and consisting of three tall iron poles interrupted by polychrome modules that take on an intimate and ancient totemic significance. The careful choice of material and its juxtapositions is a peculiarity of his. Thus takes shape the sculpture Philemon and Bauci, composed of two large discs of salvaged wood embellished with rivulets and gold “sponging,” set in an iron structure that supports and guards them motionless in a suspended time, made in 2021.

Present are the vibrant twisting columns, in stoneware and iron, of Castor and Pollux (2022), two sculptures that evoke the earth and its strength, a living and ever-changing matter. The large-scale works are accompanied by smaller works, such as Books in Sheet Metal or the tormented and unstable volumes of Guerra. The exhibition culminates in Prometheus (2022): three tall excavated and illuminated trunks evoke, with their imposing fragility, memories and wounds that are the result of a forgotten but tangible past.

In the Magnolia Cloister, the monumental sculptures placed on the lawn establish a fascinating dialogue with the architecture reflected in the water mirror of The Ghosts of the Lake, polychrome sheet metal modules that run evanescently toward the sky; the work The Guardians of the Secret enters into harmony with nature, reclaimed wood alternates with corten steel in an overlapping of materials in which the balance and harmony of forms prevail, which we also find in Incontro, a succession of lines and volumes in continuous evolution.

The exhibition also features the docufilm Maria Cristina Carlini. Geologie memorie della terra, made in 2020 by Storyville, which takes an intimate and private look at the artist’s life at work in her studio; Maria Cristina Carlini’s narrative voice accompanies her on a journey through her works and the rarefied rhythm of the workshop.

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Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Free admission.

Image: Maria Cristina Carlini, Prometheus, detail (2022; reclaimed wood, three elements; 173 x ø 39 cm, 207 x ø 54 cm, 247 x ø 60 cm) © Mimmo Capurso

Maria Cristina Carlini's solo exhibition at Fondazione Stelline features monumental sculptures and new works

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