Waiting for a landslide
BY ANDREA NACCIARRITI
2024
bronze
variable dimensions
Bronze stones replace as many rocks, from which moulds are cast, in a place in the garden where a small landslide makes a light mark on the landscape. A landslide is in itself the geological visualisation of a deeper instability, invisible to our eyes. The protagonist of the project is geological time, which inevitably changes the point of view, repositioning man and nature in a single enormous and absolute ecosystem. The prefix eco derives from oikos, which is a house or dwelling, therefore environment, which etymologically speaking, includes everything that surrounds us, even what we don't see or perceive. The ecosystem is therefore, following the Greek root of sunistemi (to collect, put together) the place that unites biological and non-biological elements. Substituting the phyllites, the rocks present in that landslide patch with their counterparts of bronze, the noble material of sculpture, presupposes the loss of the artistic process to the point of disappearance. Placing the sculpture in a place that is in itself unstable and potentially mobile exposes the form and the arrangement to precariousness. The copper and tin of which bronze is composed do not stop moving in their unstable and infinite geological flow. This allows us to reflect on how much our perception is limited to conceiving artifice, the fruit of technology and ingenuity, as a perennial presence, naively ignoring its inevitable impermanence, and thus the possibility of letting it flow, letting oneself flow, becoming lost in the process and caring for without interrupting it, just alongside it.
Andrea Nacciarriti was born in Ostra Vetere (AN) in 1976 and lives and works in Senigallia (AN). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2003.
In 2005, he participated in the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Ratti Foundation in Como, with Alfredo Jaar as visiting professor. He won the Celeste Prize 2011, the Terna Prize 03, and the New York Prize 2014/2015. He has participated in residency programs in Beijing, Ekenäs (Finland), Imlil (Morocco), and New York at ISCP.
Among his main solo exhibitions: INSTALLATION VIEW, KAPPA-NöUN, San Lazzaro di Savena Bologna; 00 00 00 00 00 00 [Essex Street Retail Market], Old Building of Essex Market, New York; CRYSTALLIZE #003 [EDAPHIC SHAPE], Palazzo Ducale of Urbino; AND THE SHIP SAILS ON, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro; NO ONE KNEW WHAT ANYONE ELSE WAS DOING, CAB, Grenoble; KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, Pro Artibus Foundation, Ekenäs in Finland; CRYSTALLIZE and SLEEPINGTIME, Galleria Franco Soffantino of Turin.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Italian and international museums, including: MUSE of Trento, Macro Rome, PAC Milan, Museum of Villa Croce Genoa; Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains Tourcoing Cedex in France, MAMM Moscow, La Maison Rouge Paris.
Special projects include: POMILIO BLUMM PRIZE - Art Contest Show, SkyArteHD; YOU MIGHT GET BREATHLESS, open studio ISCP of New York; LESS THAN AIR, Elica Showroom, Milan, on the occasion of the 49th International Furniture Fair; SCULPTURE PARK, Regent's Park of London, on the occasion of Frieze Art Fair.
His works are present in private and institutional collections, including the Fondation Antoine de Galbert in Paris and the Collezione La Gaia in Busca (CN).
