Time and its flow in the works of Elisabetta di Maggio and Sophie Ko at the Marino Marini Museum

On the occasion of Florence Art Week, the Museo Marino Marini opened on Saturday, September 24, and will be open until October 24, 2022, the exhibition Andature II with works by Elisabetta di Maggio and Sophie Ko. It is an interdisciplinary project created in 2020, curated by Marcella Cangioli and Antonella Nicola, in collaboration with the Cultural Association Città Nascosta and the Marino Marini Museum, and realized thanks to the contribution of Fondazione CR Firenze.

The two artists place at the center of their poetics the concept of time and its indelible flow, between comparisons and similarities.

In her works Elisabetta di Maggio traverses with straight lines and curves a wandering cartography between different materials: from engraved soap, as in Fez (2013), to vegetable elements, leaves, branches, embroidered flowers as in Vuoto d’aria #1, #2 #3 (2021), where the artist imagines new landscapes with a fragile balance but a strong internal tension; to the pins that draw the uncertain flight of butterflies, due to air displacements, Trajectoria di Volo di Farfalla #08, (2017). And again to postage stamps, metaphors of lived and expected stories, which compose, in a complex and articulated reconstruction, a precious mosaic, Untitled (2019).

Sophie Ko, on the other hand, constructs shapeless color maps using pure pigments, ashes obtained by burning images of artworks that collected in glass cases, placed vertically, change with the passage of time as in Temporal Geographies. Acts of Resistance or Temporal Ge ographies. The Ashes of History (2020). The vertical position causes gravity to push matter toward the ground, causing it to plummet, and in this sense, each Temporal Geography becomes a timepiece, a dust clock. The frame delimits the space of the ash image. The pattern in the painting changes, the images live in time, witness it, disappear, and return. Sometimes Sophie Ko inserts elements such as flowers or butterflies, in Temporal Geographies. Vanitas of the Earth (2020), recalling the metaphysical aspiration, through iridescence and golden glitter, of the Old Masters.

“In continuity with the previous edition,” say curators Marcella Cangioli and Antonella Nicola,"Andature continues the reflection on our being and being in the world, complex beings in continuous transformation, in a multidimensional reality that cannot fail to take into account the inseparable link that unites man to nature, but also to the laws and evolutionary processes of the universe. Science, cosmology, macro and microcosm, ecology, nature and biological rhythms, dynamics of confrontation and relationship, these are the themes that mark the path of man along the road of his evolution and that characterize this project defined precisely by the step, by the Andature of the artist, individually or jointly."

Andature II is realized with the support and collaboration of the artists’ galleries of reference: Building Milano, Galleria De Foscherari, Bologna, Renata Fabbri Arte Contemporanea Milano, Christian Stein, Milan.

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Image: Sophie Ko, Atlases (2020; Florence, Museo Marino Marini) Photo by Serge Dominge

Time and its flow in the works of Elisabetta di Maggio and Sophie Ko at the Marino Marini Museum

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