Carla Mattii
dal 23/4/2009 al 16/5/2009
Segnalato da
23/4/2009
Carla Mattii
Artget Gallery - Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade
In qualita' di vincitrice del premio speciale della giuria in occasione della 48ma edizione dell'October Salon (2007) presso il Belgrade Cultural Center, l'artista inaugura la personale dal titolo 'Crypto-game'. Attraverso una eterogenea serie di lavori che variano dall'installazione alla scultura, dalle fotografie ai disegni, la mostra indaga il sottile confine tra bellezza artificiale e naturale, tema principale della ricerca artistica di Carla Mattii.
curated by Svetlana Petrović
A solo exhibition by the recipient of the Belgrade Cultural Centre Award at the 48th October Salon
Man’s need to describe and understand the world around him is as old as human civilisation. One of
the first phenomena that man encountered was nature. As human thought progressed, the notion of
nature changed, and today’s concept of nature is based on the issues wherein nature is considered as
the object of scientific investigation. What we have here are two natures, one nature as such, the other
processed, created, man’s nature.
The Italian artist Carla Mattii deals with some of the above problems. Her photographs, objects and
installations deal with the relationship between nature and art in various ways. Her attention focuses
on beauty arising as a product of natural processes of years of evolution, as well as a product of human
activity. Carla Mattii is rightly fascinated with nature and everything it has to offer. The starting point
of her photographic works are always real plants and flowers. In a series of photographs, she presents
plants that she has created herself by combining flower parts of various plant species. Using a
computer and a programme for processing photographs, she links them , combines and improves them
relying on purely aesthetic principles and categories. The products of her work are exceptionally
interesting amalgams, fascinating photographs of improved nature.
As opposed to photographs in which the artist uses digital tools to recombine elements of the living
world, her objects/sculptures are entirely produced by means of computers and rely on nature as a
model and starting point only on the level of ideas. The sculptures are a virtual reflection of nature,
artefacts that confirm nature as a toponym, object and locus of conversation in rhetorical terms. In
these works, nature is not treated as a physical given, it is an image, notion, artefact, construct. Nature
is a public discourse toponym, something that has been made, produced, both fiction and fact.
Her photographes, objects, installation are not a glorification of the omnipotence of technology or a
vision of the interaction between technology and nature.
They are a means of achieving empathy, a
sensual impression that is in collision, today more than ever, with the empirical experience of
everyday life. Emotions can thus function as cognition when they are interlinked with the other
elements. The viewer’s gaze is not reduced to a mechanical process of watching that eliminates the
psychic aspect; on the contrary, it requires empathising with the works. This sight, a window into the
future that the artist offers, is at the same time fascinating and scary, for it indirectly evokes fear from
the consequences of genetic engineering and “improvements” on nature that man might resort to in the
future. ( from the text There Was Perhaps a First Vision Attempted in a Flower , by Sasa Janjic)
Opening: Friday, April 24th 2009, at 20
Artget Gallery ,Belgrade Cultural Centre - Trg Republike 5/I
Knez Mihailova 6 Belgrade