To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle February 26 – July 25

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Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni

To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle�First chapter : Matter �

February 26 – April 5 2014    

To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle continues Nomas Foundation’s ongoing investigation on visual art’s languages, following A Theatre Cycle, 2013; A Painting Cycle, 2012; A Film Cycle, 2011; A Performance Cycle, 2010. To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle is a research-based project inspired by a core group of works from the Nomas Foundation collection, which focuses on sculpture, organised in three chapters, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the medium. Through itineraries around the city, a public programme of lectures in collaboration with Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, visits to artists studios and specific collections, To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle aims to build a dialogue between the present and the past, between the Foundation and the narrative texture of the city. Matter, the first episode of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, is inspired by the famous series of lectures held by Rudolf Wittkower at Cambridge University in 1970-71. The aim of these lectures, was to examine works on the basis of the working methods used by the artists, while also seeking out lines of continuity and rupture throughout the history of art, from the Archaic period to the present day. In a similar manner, this first episode looks at how works are made, and how their material presence determines their appearance and the way they are perceived. The solid and the void, to carve or to shape, are still the constituent elements of sculpture today – whether the artist works with traditional materials or whether he inscribes the form within a space, or even when giving shape to data, images and sounds that constitute a new and potential matter. (to continue) Exhibition: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Rossella Biscotti, Chiara Camoni, William Cobbing, Michael Dean, Luisa Gardini, Helena Hladilová, Oliver Laric, Else Leirvik, Nicola Pecoraro, Diego Perrone, Timur Si-Qin, Jesse Wine.  

To continue. Notes towards aculpture Cycle�Second chapter: Vision�April 17 - May 27 2014�

 To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle continues Nomas Foundation’s ongoing investigation on visual art’s languages, following A Theatre Cycle, 2013; A Painting Cycle, 2012; A Film Cycle, 2011; A Performance Cycle, 2010. ��To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle is a research-based project inspired by a core group of works from the Nomas Foundation collection, which focuses on sculpture, organised in three chapters, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the medium.��When Richard Serra compiled a list of verbs in 1967, indicating potential actions on unspecified materials, he ended it with the note “to continue”. While the past century increased the possible ways of acting on and with the medium, it is nevertheless true that, throughout its history, sculpture has maintained a degree of continuity with its origins, going back on a cyclical basis to its traditional reasoning and methods. �Visions, the second chapter of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, offers a reading of sculpture through an investigation on the relationship between gaze and object, able to convey the narrative drive that sculpture has retained thorough centuries. The exhibition explores the way in which the act of looking at the sculptural subject is consequently reshaped into an object per se, as well as addressing the conditions of perception of a work. �The research on and the representation of sculpture, the way in which it is filtered by the lens of a camera, the different perception of the subjects and of its details through direct experience and  the construction of an imagery are all issues that Visions. To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, brings up. The works on show highlight how photography and film have been able to transfigure in sculpture and how the latter can become image, underlining the way in which an art work takes form, is conveyed and how its perception is constantly evolving. ��To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle aims to build a dialogue between the present and the past, between Nomas Foundation and the narrative texture of the city. Vision’s public programme includes an itinerary with artist Anna Franceschini, a studio visit with �artist Luigi Ontani, a lecture with curators Simone Menegoi and Francesco Stocchi, and a talk between Davide Servadei, Luisa Gardini e Luigi Ontani, organised in collaboration with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna *. ��(to continue)

Exhibition: Michael Dean, Anna Franceschini, Ryan Gander, Hannah James, Heike Kabisch, Luigi Ontani, Erin Shirreff, Wolfang Tillmans  

To continue. Notes towards aculpture Cycle�Third chapter: Scale�June 5 - July 25 2014  

The last chapter of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle , a research-based project inspired by a core group of works from the Nomas Foundation collection, focuses on issues of scale.  

Scale is a term that here sums the different and possible ways in which to approach sculpture.�It refers to the relationship between work and sketch, which often efficiently conveys the artist’s practice, underlining the way issues such as matter, space and prospective are addressed. �It indicates size as an essential element for the creation of an object and for its perception, highlighting the dialogue between copy and original, model and work. It draws the attention to the fact that of all the visual art forms, sculpture is the one which invests the body of the viewer as a term of comparison and measurement in connection to the work.�And finally, investigating the issue of scale, declined in the meanings just discussed, reveals the performative aspect that runs through contemporary sculpture, almost as if the loss of the centrality of the object could be translated in relationship and duration, spatiality and temporality. ��To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle aims to build a dialogue between the present and the past, between Nomas Foundation and the narrative texture of the city. Scale’s public programme includes an itinerary through the city with artist Italo Zuffi, a studio visit with artist Nunzio, a performance by Bettina Buck, a lecture by Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, organised in collaboration with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna.    To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle continues Nomas Foundation’s ongoing investigation on visual art’s languages, following A Theatre Cycle, 2013; A Painting Cycle, 2012; A Film Cycle, 2011; A Performance Cycle, 2010.��(to continue)

Exhibition: Bettina Buck, Chiara Camoni, Attila Csörgö, Flavio Favelli, Marie Lund, Ute Müller, Nunzio, Raphaël Zarka, Italo Zuffi

Public Programme

Studio visit - Luisa Gardini Piazza Enciclopedia Italiana, 50 - Rome

Tuesday, March 25 - 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm  

Luisa Gardini opens her studio and invites a small audience to explore it. Luisa Gardini began working at the end of the 1950s, and her first show took place in 1979. Her work is the product of her personal researches on the avant-gardes and on abstract expressionism.

Diego Perrone- Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna Viale delle Belle Arti, 131, Rome

Saturday April 5 – 11.30 am  

A tour through the National Gallery and its collections, guided by the artist Diego Perrone, who will weave the story of his practice to the analysis of the works on show. Using different techniques and materials, the artist aims at highlighting particular aspects of our tradition, always at the threshold between the past and the present, the ordinary and the extraordinary.

On the occasion of Matter, first chapter of To Continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation is pleased to present the next two events of the public research programme accompanying the project

Ph: Vasco Forconi

Sculpture and its Vision  �Simone Menegoi and Francesco Stocchi in conversation  �

 �Introduced by Stefania Frezzotti

Wednesday April 30 at 5.30 pm, the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome, hosts the conference Sculpture and its Vision, part of Nomas Foundation’s public program in the frame of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle - Episode Two: Vision, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni with the collaboration of Michela Tornielli and Stefano Vittorini.� Introduced by Stefania Frezzotti (curator at the GNAM), who will present the theme in relationship to the museum’s collection, the curators and art critics Simone Menegoi and Francesco Stocchi will address the relationship between photography and sculpture in modern and contemporary art production.  

The exhibitions The Camera's Blind Spot (MAN, Nuoro, 2013) curated by Simone Menegoi and Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray. Framing Sculpture (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2014) curated by Francesco Stocchi, have marked the recent debate on representation and on the shift of the point of view in the vision of sculpture. The conference aims at examining the discussion on the evolution and on the transformation of the photographic gaze on the sculptural object. The medium has modified its function from documentary to creative, researching form and consequently repositioning the object. The image has become matter, transforming the two dimensional character of photography in a proper and actual three-dimensional shape.

  Pursuing Nomas Foundation’s investigation on visual art’s languages, the conference represents a moment of in-depth analysis of the cycle To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, a research-based project, in three chapters, inspired by a core group of works from the Foundation’s collection, which focuses on sculpture.  

Visions, the second chapter of To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, offers a reading of sculpture through an investigation on the relationship between gaze and object, able to convey the narrative drive that sculpture has retained through centuries. The exhibition explores the way in which the act of looking at the sculptural subject is consequently reshaped into an object per se, as well as addressing the conditions of perception of a work. 

The research on the representation of sculpture, the way in which it is filtered by the lens of a camera, the different perception of the subjects and of its details through direct experience, and the construction of an imagery, are all issues inherent the exhibition. The works on show highlight how photography and film have been able to transfigure in sculpture and how the latter can become image, underlining the way in which an art work takes form, is conveyed and how its perception is constantly evolving.    

The craftsman �On collaborations between artists and artisans �

Luisa Gardini, Luigi Ontani, Davide Servadei in conversation �

Introduced by Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli      

On Tuesday 27 May at the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome, artists Luisa Gardini and Luigi Ontani discuss with Davide Servadei, nephew of Riccardo, founder of the renown ceramic workshop Bottega d’arte Ceramica Gatti of Faenza, on collaborations between artists and artisans. Sing, clear-voiced Muses, of Hephaestus famed for inventions. With bright-eyed Athene he taught men glorious gifts throughout the world, -- men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts. But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus the famed worker, easily they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole year round.

The Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus is one of the first celebrations of the master craftsman. Here, the ability to make objects derives from the knowledge of materials and manual skills: hand and mind of the craftsman reciprocally guide each other. In his celebrated book The Craftman, Richard Sennet analyses such figure, and frames in the current world the importance of the homo faber. Following this lead, the lecture aims at examining the existing relation between artists and the artisans they collaborate with.

On Scale �A lecture by �

Lisa Le Feuvre ��

Introduced by Paolo Castelli

On Friday 27 June at the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome, Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, will discuss sculpture through the relationship between the work and the body of the spectator.

Sculpture is subject to gravity and revealed in light. Taking up space, sculpture deploys mass and volume calling into its service surrounding spaces. It demands a direct encounter, calling on a lived relationship between the human body and the artwork. The most traditional sculpture is to be walked around as it occupies space. Less traditional sculpture asks to be touched, moved, listened to. In all cases, sculpture pulls of the human body. This relationship is built on scale. The monumental looms above us, the miniscule demands a bending of the torso and peering of the eyes.

  This lecture studies scale through three exhibitions presented at the Henry Moore Institute: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s On Growth and Form, Ian Kiaer: Tooth House, Robert Filliou: The Institute of Endless Possibilities and Michael Dean: Government. The talk closes with a discussion on the work of Lygia Clark: Organic Planes, a small scale exhibition under research for autumn 2014 and takes as its guide D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s 1917 publication On Growth and Form, a mathematical and poetic study of scale.

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Founders Raffaella & Stefano Sciarretta

  Directors

Cecilia Canziani & Ilaria Gianni programme@nomasfoundation.com

  Registrar

Orsola Mileti collection@nomasfoundation.com

  Assistant Curators �

Michela Tornielli, Stefano Vittorini info@nomasfoundation.com

Index of works�

First chapter: Matter  Luisa  Gardini    22x22,  2014.  Courtesy  De  Luca  Editori  d’Arte  Senza  )tolo,  2011.  Courtesy  l’ar:sta  Senza  )tolo,  2010.  Courtesy  l’ar:sta                      Senza  )tolo,  2011.  Courtesy  l’ar:sta  Senza  )tolo,  2013.  Courtesy  l’ar:sta    Jesse  Wine,  Travelling  white  man,  2013.    Courtesy  Collezione  Raffaella  e  Stefano  SciarreBa;  Nomas  Founda:on,  Roma    Diego  Perrone,  I  pensatori  di  buchi  (The  Thinkers  of  Holes),  2002.    Courtesy  Collezione  Raffaella  e  Stefano  SciarreBa;  Nomas  Founda:on,  Roma    Micheal  Dean,  (Un)teld)  Analogue  Series,  2010  Courtesy  Collezione  Raffaella  e  Stefano  SciarreBa;  Nomas  Founda:on,  Roma    Giorgio  Andreo>a  Calò,  Clessidra  (U),  2012  Courtesy  Fondazione  Giuliani,  Roma    Timur  Si  Qin,  TM1517  (Paranthropus  Robustus):  dressed  in  pool  water,  2013  Courtesy  l’ar:sta  e  Fluxia,  Milano    Else  Leirvik,  Un)tled,  2008    Courtesy  Collezione  Raffaella  e  Stefano  SciarreBa;  Nomas  Founda:on,  Roma    Oliver  Laric,  Version,  2010  Courtesy  l’ar:sta;  Seventeen  Gallery,  Londra;  Tania  Leighton  Gallery,  Berlin    Rossella  BiscoI,  Il  Processo,  2011  Courtesy  Collezione  Raffaella  e  Stefano  SciarreBa;  Nomas  Founda:on,  Roma    William  Cobbing,  The  Agony  of  water,  2011  Courtesy  Collezione  Raffaella  e  Stefano  SciarreBa;  Nomas  Founda:on,  Roma    Chiara  Camoni,  Senza  )tolo,  l’esercito  di  terracoOa  #02  Courtesy  l’ar:sta  e  Galleria  SpazioA,  Pistoia    Helena  Hladilová  ,  Scultura  sonora  (Animals  series),  2013  Courtesy  l’ar:sta  e  CO2,  Torino    Nicola  Pecoraro,Un)tled,  2011    Courtesy  Studio  SALES  di  Norberto  Ruggeri,  Roma          

Third chapter: Scale Chiara Camoni, Luca ovvero San Giorgio e il Drago ovvero San Michele, 2010 Courtesy the artist and SpazioA, Pistoia Flavio Favelli Maison (verde Alpi), 2005. Courtesy the artist Maison, 2005. Courtesy the artist Maison (giallo Siena), 2005. Courtesy the artist Raphaël Zarka La sculpture verte de Montreuil, 2008 Retrospective of the first 22 Prismatics (Studio version), 2014 Courtesy the artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris Marie Lund , Goods, 2012 Courtesy the artist and Laura Bartlett Galery, London Bettina Buck , Two girls looking, 2009 Courtesy the artist and Rokeby, London Nunzio, Senza titolo, 2011/2014 Courtesy the artist Italo Zuffi, La replica, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Pinksummer, Genova Ute Müller, Untitled, 2014 Courtesy the artist  Attila Csörgö , Spherical Vortex II, 1999 Courtesy Collezione Raffaella e Stefano Sciarretta, Nomas Foudation, Roma  

Second chapter: Vision Michael Dean, Our Daily Permanence, 2010 Courtesy: the artist; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Supportico Lopez, Berlin Ryan Gander, The lady's not for turning - (Alchemy Box No. 32), 2012 Courtesy: Collezione Raffaella e Stefano Sciarretta; Nomas Foundation, Roma Erin Shirreff , Medardo Rosso, Madame x 1890, 2013 Courtesy: the artist and Lisa Cooley, New York Heike Kabisch, Oh my lord, I'm so bored, 2008 Courtesy: Collezione Raffaella e Stefano Sciarretta; Nomas Foundation, Rome Wolfgang Tillmans, Anders pulling splinter from his foot , 2004. Courtesy: Collezione Stefano e Raffaella Sciarretta Anna Franceschini, Splendid is the light in the city of night, 2013. Courtesy: the artist and Vistamare, Pescara Luigi Ontani, (Noto StoNato in Spinario area), Bali 2013/2014 Courtesy: the artist; O'Neill Roma, Roma   Hannah James, Screen #5 St Thomas' Square (slide), 2011 Courtesy: Collezione Raffaella e Stefano Sciarretta; Nomas Foundation, Roma    

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