“My work and research are situated on a boundary, a margin, between reality and imagination. Throughout my exploration, this boundary expands and creates a suspended space-time where time is subjective and space is imaginary. It is within this suspension that new “natural states” of matter and form can emerge and manifest. The micro and the macrocosm intertwine – the large and the small, the light and the heavy, the solid and the liquid, the cold and the hot. They interchange positions and generate artworks that ask us to suspend our biases and preconceptions.”
Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to announce its major exhibition of Giorgio Vigna’s ever-evolving work – Costellazioni, 29 May – 5 July 2024.
Celebrating fifteen years of exciting collaborations between Giorgio Vigna and the gallery, the exhibition will feature 50 pieces, including wearable artworks, sculptures, and works on paper made from the 1980s to the present.
Costellazioni is not a retrospective; it is a storytelling of over four decades of Vigna’s transformative material poetry, resulting in stunning pieces that achieve the perfect balance between materials, forms, and concepts.
The works are a statement of Vigna’s experimental and metamorphic artistic research. At the forefront are his wearable sculptures, alongside Cosmografie (Cosmographies), the works on paper that sparked his entire creative universe, and Morfema, a poetic glass sculpture interacting with the surrounding environment like a living organism.
On display, there will be an exclusive selection of both iconic works and new creations that will be revealed there for the first time. The pieces are presented in their continuity, as a never-ending metamorphic cycle of materials, shapes, and ideas. Showcasing Vigna’s masterful use of glass, precious metals, gemstones, and magnets, the exhibition highlights wearable creations from the artist’s interconnected sculptural realms, including Segmenti (Segments), Sassi (Stones), Costellazioni (Constellation), Sospeso (Suspended), Filo (Thread), and Floralia – the latter being the wearable evolution of Morfema. All the pieces were featured in major museum exhibitions including Sassi, Oratorio San Rocco, Padua, 2022 and Stati Naturali, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 2013.
New creations include wearable versions of the Stella Maris sculpture, along with a limited edition of rings crafted from volcanic lapilli personally gathered by the artist on Mount Etna and covered in silver or copper, repurposed as precious ornaments that retain the trace of their organic origin.
“I am always drawn to primary materials with a strong symbolic value, evoking primal emotions. Glass as solidified water, copper as fire, and gold as the light. At the heart of my research is the theme of the hidden. Through my work, I shed light on the inner essence of materials, their darkest sides. I’m simply a conduit for their alchemic manifestation.”
Showing the continuity between Vigna’s large-scale sculptures and wearable pieces, the exhibition celebrates the idea that Vigna’s creations are cycles of being, where each piece continuously evolves and morphs into the next, like Nature’s eternal revolutions.
For media enquiries: Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery
Marta Colombo – marta@elisabettacipriani.com +44 (0) 207 287 5675
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