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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40592| Title: | What Remains# | Contributors/Performers: | CAIMMI, Jo | Issue Date: | 2022 | Abstract: | A duo exhibition in Saint Matthias'ex-church of Bologna, Italy; the concept is born in the context of the FRAME Research Group of Uhasselt, in which Patrick Ceyssens ad I confronted our artworks whit the idea of ruins as a high architectural form. Curator Leonardo Legano. | Keywords: | What Remains#;Bologna;ex-chiesa di San Mattia | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40592 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://www.giovannacaimmi.it/works/what-remains/ https://www.exibart.com/arte-contemporanea/cio-che-rimane-tra-memoria-e-retina-caimmi-e-ceyssens-a-bologna/ | Discipline: | multidisciplinair | Research Context: | What remains of what has been? A question that comes up again, pressing, as you cross the threshold of the former Church of San Mattia. Now a secular space devoted to the arts, San Mattia makes no secret of the sacred nature of its origins, which are still firmly in evidence. Inside the former church, one enters in silence and continues to whisper as if out of a sense of devout respect. The aura of an unspecified time gone by welcomes us and awakens in us a sense of discovery and observation for those traces that remain in the stratifications of its ruins, its pasts, its different lives. In front of our eyes, the great hall a distinguishing feature of its Renaissance and post-Reformation architecture is revealed; our vision is bound towards the altar and its scenic late Baroque setting. The dense wall decorations alternate with large gaps, left vacant to emphasise the lack of what was. What remains is a free interpretation of our minds. Our gaze runs along the side chapels; we find new fragments and stratifications of painting, sculpture and architectural partitions: this is what remains of a place that yesterday was certain of its nature and today is in a hybrid, indefinite state, in constant flux. The sacredness that yesterday was nourished by religious ritual today is nourished by the relationship with the arts that it houses within it. But the current enlightened management follows years of abandonment and neglect, and these gaps are the scars and tangible sign of a human action that has turned its back on what has been, disrespecting it and creating a storm, heedless of the heap of ruins that rises before it to the sky . What remains is a project based on the confrontation and dialogue between Giovanna Caimmi and Patrick Ceyssens, artists linked by an exchange relationship that has lasted for years and who, for this occasion, open their research to the suggestions received from the encounter with the former Church of San Mattia. In the differences of their practices a strong partnership is grafted, built on a free and composite sensibility capable of restoring the complexity of what remains of the essence of this particular space. Caimmi and Ceyssens are both members of the FRAME RESEARCH GROUP promoted by PXL- Mad University of Hasselt, which supports this exhibition and whose mission is to investigate the expressive possibilities of the image through the mixture of visual arts, architecture, philosophy and literature. (By the text of Leonardo Regano) | Impact Description: | the exhibition had an excellent number of visitors and a good impact on the press, as can be seen from the article published on exibart: | Related Info: | FRAME RESEARCH GROUP UHASSELT, Bologna Musei | Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
| Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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