23/5/2006
Michele Chiossi
METIS_NL, Amsterdam
The show is a plastic investigation on what is around sculpture, what really makes it move, that is transportation and packing. Therefore an anonimous and industrially made wooden case is not anymore a container but becomes marble content.
On Sculpture
On Wednesday May 24, at 17.00 hours, a one-man exhibition by Michele
Chiossi, On Sculpture, will be opened in the Metis_nl Gallery,
Lijnbaansgracht 316 in Amsterdam. Chiossi, born in 1970, lives and works in
Milan and exhibits in Amsterdam for the third time.
This time, as the title of the exhibition clearly shows, the artist is
engaged in a deep reflection on sculpture, a sort of answer to the
historical exhibition held in Paris twenty years ago ("Qu'est-ce que c'est
la sculpture moderne?", Centre Georges Pompidou, 1986), on how contemporary
sculpture has developed its language, giving further replies to questions
remained opened and taking into consideration, also things which are around
sculpture but which at the end become sculpture themselves.
In fact, on one hand he shows works which are innovative and
installation-like: 4 a.m, a marble banner, a sort of popular slogan, flag of
a contemporary street-style; i_care, a place meant for resting, an urban
shelter where anybody can find temporary but safe cover; and finally One
Hotel, a door leant against a wall, an imaginative and conscious quotation
of Boetti and his adventure in Afghanistan.
On the other hand, the exhibition is a plastic investigation on what is
around sculpture, what really makes it move, that is transportation and
packing. Therefore an anonimous and industrially made wooden case, used to
move sculptures, is not anymore a container but becomes marble content (La
cage aux folles); and the pallet is shown in a different format, a sort of
minimal chromium-plated tableau, lighted and meant to be hanged on a wall
(Dan Pallet Pink, homage to Dan Flavin); and finally an empty glossy
classical base (Incipit, homage to Socle du Monde and Magical Bases by
Manzoni), which, deprived by its sustaining role, becomes a monument by
itself, open to perception and reflection. On Sculpture, the artist says, does not mean to be a definition but a
conscious statement of sculture.
Opening: Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 17.00
Metis_NL
Lijnbaansgracht 316 - Amsterdam
Opening time: Wednesday-Saturday, 13 - 18