San Marino, Vedovamazzei's exhibition involving three exhibition venues opens

From March 23, 2024, to September 27, 2024, with the exhibition LRVM - Libera Repubblica Vedova Mazzei by Vedovamazzei - Simeone Crispino and Stella Scala - curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, the Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea gallery in San Marino, presents an exhibition project that involves not only its spaces, but also those of the Torre Guaita 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 1990s generation. The exhibition presents three distinct sections with works conceived or repurposed for the public spaces of the Guaita Tower and the National Gallery.

At the Guaita Tower, the oldest of the three fortresses that dominate the city, Appliance is 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 a metaphysical dynamic. Instead, in the Tower’s cells, which were intended for prisons, Early Works (Scipione Borghese A) and Early Works (Scipione Borghese B) are exhibited, part of a series begun a few years ago, whose visual-formal result is translated into painting or sculpture. The artists have adapted their work to the exhibition space, where there are also drawings made by inmates who intensely narrate their experience. The bronze sculptures, inspired by children’s drawings of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, link the creativity of childhood, the more complex creativity of prisoners and that of artists. At the National Gallery-which for the occasion sees a part of the permanent collection exhibition renewed with works by James Brown, Shirin Neshat, Marina Busignani Reffi, Emilio Vedova, and Enzo Mari-Vedovamazzei presents The Notes, a site-specific installation in which the typical gloves of San Marino uniforms accommodate the drawing of the map of San Marino, the oldest Republic in the world. Finally, in the spaces of the Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea gallery, an anthological exhibition presents works that chronicle much of the duo’s artistic journey. The LRVM - Libera Repubblica Vedova Mazzei project presents a series of careful and thoughtful interventions in which Vedovamazzei explores and reinvents techniques and approaches developed during his career. This renews the artists’ interest in public space, helping to keep alive the Italian tradition of seeing Art not only in museums, but also in churches and palaces. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with text by Giacinto di Pietrantonio.

Notes on the artists

Artists Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino have lived and worked in Milan as Vedovamazzei since 1991. Vedovamazzei are two complex, extremely prolific artists whom it is impossible to frame in a thematic strand, in a formal wake, in a single working method. “When you don’t know whose piece it is, it’s Vedovamazzei’s,” is now a mythical phrase referring to this inseparable pair, Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino. Their research since the first half of the 1990s has brought attention to the space of the everyday and the contradictions that the global world of images proposed in those years. Their works are not only a way to react to the end of ideologies by celebrating the suspension of judgment and adopting an ironic look at the world, but also to stimulate the imagination and the ability to make unexpected associations in order to observe things from unprecedented points of view. In fact, already the choice to eliminate their egos by merging into a new artistic identity allowed them from the very beginning to analyze and focus on creative processes, their ways of development and sharing. Theirs is an original contribution to what was being called, in the mid-1990s, relational, neo-conceptual and post-production art, within which the artists reflected on the Duchampian ready-made theme in a profound and unconventional way.

San Marino, Vedovamazzei's exhibition involving three exhibition venues opens

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