VEDOVAMAZZEI arrives in San Marino with a project spread across three spaces

From March 23 to Sept. 27, 2024, the Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea gallery in San Marino presents the LRVM exhibition by VEDOVAMAZZEI, the artist duo composed of Simeone Crispino and Stella Scala, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, which will involve not only its spaces but also those of the Guaita Tower and the National Gallery of the Republic of San Marino.

VEDOVAMAZZEI’s exhibition is the second installment of SM-Art. Artistic Sensitivities from the 1990s, a program of initiatives promoted by Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, with a scientific committee composed of Fabio Cavallucci, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Angela Vettese, which aims to exhibit in San Marino some of the most significant artists of the generation of the 1990s, making them dialogue with the territory and its institutions.

Dedicated to the memory of Claudio Poleschi, who passed away in August 2022, the diffuse exhibition presents, thanks to the hospitality and collaboration of the Secretariat of State for Education and Culture and the Cultural Institutes - State Museums - National Gallery of San Marino, three distinct sections with works conceived or repurposed for the public spaces of the Guaita Tower and the National Gallery, which constitute a premise to the exhibition in the gallery.

At the Guaita Tower, the oldest of the three fortresses that dominate the city, Appliance will be installed, a work composed of a chair with four legs, one of which rests on a lit light bulb: in the artists’ interpretation, the object thus loses its sense of sitting and instead takes on, in a location traditionally intended for the defense of the city, a metaphysical dynamic. Instead, in the cells of the Tower, which were intended for prisons, Early Works (Scipione Borghese A) and Early Works(Scipione Borghese B), part of a series begun a few years ago, whose visual-formal result is translated into painting or, as in this case, sculpture, will be exhibited. The artists found the work appropriate for the space, which also holds drawings made by prisoners, “primitive” drawings that narrate with intensity the experience of those places. The bronze sculptures arise from drawings made by children who tried to reproduce Gianlorenzo Bernini’s portrait of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a patron and collector of seventeenth-century Rome. The work relates various levels of creativity, the innocent one of childhood, the guilty and cunning one of the prisoners, and that of the artists themselves.

At the National Gallery, among the works in the permanent collection, VEDOVAMAZZEI presents The Map, a site-specific installation in which the typical gloves of San Marino uniforms accommodate the drawing of the map of San Marino.

Finally, in the spaces of the Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea gallery, ananthological exhibition presents works intended to narrate much of the duo’s artistic journey.

The LRVM project collects different interventions, in which VEDOVAMAZZEI revisits techniques and methods developed in his career.

Image: VEDOVAMAZZEI, Appliance No. 4 Chair (2018; buble light, 80 x 50 x 82 cm)

VEDOVAMAZZEI arrives in San Marino with a project spread across three spaces

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