MILANO SCULTURA
Luisa Elia, Paola Fonticoli and Antonio Pizzolante
ABITARE (LIVE)
Inauguration 4.10.24 h18-22
5-6th October h11-20
Luisa Elia, Paola Fonticoli and Antonio Pizzolante
“Abitare”, curated by Claudia Ponzi Art Gallery Finestreria, presents the works of Luisa Elia, Paola Fonticoli and Antonio Pizzolante. Different expressive languages, unpublished materials and abstract forms that embody and solicit the “Living” time, emptiness and the essence of places; a theme declined according to what for over 40 years has been the peculiar research of each of them.
Luisa Elia
Inhabiting the void and space: ceramic and rubber sculptures. The ovoid works of Mater Souvenir, in white refractory clay, belong to a cycle dedicated to the Mother, understood as the generating force of the universe. Together with other ceramics, with their poetry and candor, they defy the void and contain it, wrapping it and communicating with the outside through an infinite series of holes. The Puncta, rubber and ink castings, are part of a more minimalist cycle and present themselves as multicellular organisms that seem to proliferate endlessly in space.
Paola Fonticoli
Living the time, time of doing. Small gestures, folds, cuts that transform the paper, matter of the book, into three-dimensional forms and words, texts (which lose their original meaning) in tones and signs that become “color”. Sculptures of paper, playful and light structures but strong of a careful and measured doing that, with extreme care, reanimates and gives new life to forgotten books.
Antonio Pizzolante
Inhabit the essence of places. Antonio Pizzolante has always been linked to the evocation of form and sincerity of matter, as a significant metaphor of our being in time. The stones, terracotta, irons, pigments, woods, seek relationship, balance and identity but also presence and memory, step and crossing, landscapes and horizons. A journey that is knowledge, reflection, not simple narration, but unique and alchemical vision of reality.
