Insight: Sissi
dal 24/5/2006 al 14/7/2006
Segnalato da
24/5/2006
Insight: Sissi
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
For her installation, Nature, th artist, with a sense of both humor and the ability to see beauty in the most unexpected places, has taken the humble nylon pot scourer, found in multi colors at local dime stores, and sewn them into ropes which she will weave together and hang from the ceiling like an elongated drip.Also included in the exhibition is a selection of Sissi's diaries and drawings she has been compiling for 10 years.
Nature
Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 2nd floor
In Sissi's work, there is a deep fascination with the natural world in all its
forms. This fascination begins with a sense of her body within and connected to
nature and is extended from the body into the spaces of art by her innovative of use
inorganic materials.
Sissi knits, weaves and grafts objects one to the other to
embody her sense of the interconnectedness of all aspects of the natural world. As
Sissi commented recently: "To think about the natural brings me to a state of pure
sensation. Just as nature reproduces its forms, we humans reproduce our inner selves
and embody that spirit in the external world."
For her installation, Nature, Sissi, with a sense of both humor and the ability to
see beauty in the most unexpected places, has taken the humble nylon pot scourer,
found in multi colors at local dime stores, and sewn them into ropes which she will
weave together and hang from the ceiling like an elongated drip.
She calls this part of the installation, "Lenghthening nature" for her concern is to
create not a specific object but rather a sense of a process, a stretching out of
form, a falling away as if the celling were melting and responding to the
gravitational pull of the earth. Sissi's performance at the opening of the
exhibition will involve an interaction with this web of scourers.
Also included in the exhibition is a selection of Sissi's diaries and drawings.
Sissi has been compiling her signature diaries for 10 years. The diaries are not
conventional records of daily experience but more documents of the evolution of her
feelings, a seed bed of ideas where she works and evolves her pieces through
drawing, notes, photographs, collage and experiments of texture. Each diary
represents a year in her artistic journey, a record where she digests and improves
the process of her creations.
Nature is the second in a new series of exhibitions recently launched by the Chelsea Art Museum under the title, INSIGHT. These short run exhibitions will be devoted to cutting edge young artists who have not yet enjoyed a solo showing of their work in a New York museum.
Sissi's show at the Chelsea Art Museum was made possible with the support of the
Italian Cultural Institut in New York.
Admission: $6 adults, $3 students and seniors, free for members and visitors 18 and under Thursday 6-8pm: 3$ for everyone
Opening hours: Tues - Sat Noon to 6 pm - Thursday Noon to 8 pm - Closed Sunday and Monday
Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street - New York