Maria Cristina Carlini
participates in
Merci Beaucoup! new values – new objects
inside the event
INNOVATION / IMAGINATION
Spazio A – Face to Superstudio Più
Location
Date
Spazio A Ex Ansaldo, via Tortona 54 - Milan
from 12 to 17 april 2011, at 10am – 9pm
Maria Cristina Carlini’s art in support of and at the service of eco-sustainability. This is the
meaning of the participation of the Milan-born sculptress in Merci Beaucoup! new values new objects, an event part of the circuit Fuori Salone 2011 for Milan Design Week to be held
from April 12th to 17th 2011 in Via Tortona 54, Spazio A (ex-fabbrica Ansaldo) Face to
Superstudio Più as collateral event of the project “Innovation / Imagination”.
The event, curated by Fortunato D'Amico, involves architects, artists, designers and
companies in the sign of multidisciplinary nature, and presents a critical overview of goods
consumption
and
their
production
systems
and
social
advancement.
An analysis of the human habitat starting from contemporaneity to tell - through a variety of
media, such as multimedia, photographs, artworks, graphics, videos and objects - the evolution
of consumer goods going back in time.
Environmental ethics and preservation of different cultures are, for that matter, the themes of
the 2015 Expo - whose title is “Feeding the planet. Energies for Life” – towards which Merci
Beaucoup! is meant as a proposal of reflection: there are not indeed only goods on display, but
also meetings, debates and projects.
Redesigning the energy systems and agricultural landscape, food, transports, cities,
architecture, interior and exterior living spaces as well as the products that make our living
functional and pleasant is a task incumbent on designers as well as on artists, who create works
intended to improve the quality of life of those who observe them or choose, more radically, to
be accompanied by a work of art throughout their life when welcoming it into their home.
Maria Cristina Carlini presents therefore, on this particular occasion, “sustainable” works in
line with the guiding theme of the initiative - made of iron, bronze, sheet metal and, stoneware and demonstrates her versatility by presenting works intended for interior display.
Among the works on display, particular attention should be paid to the beautiful sculpture Note
(Notes) (h 225 cm), consisting of six diamond-shaped sheet plates suspended from the ceiling;
to Karbala, made up of three elements made of iron that recall the shape of a screen; and Libro
Scultura (Book-Sculpture), an iron and grès sculpture.
A brief biography
Maria Cristina Carlini started working ceramics in the early Seventies in Palo Alto, California.
She returned to Europe in 1978. In 1983 she held a solo exhibition in the Rocca Borromea, a
Fortress located in Angera.
During the artistic activity of Maria Cristina Carlini, exhibitions in numerous international public
and private venues, including the following solo exhibitions: in Rome at the State Archives;
Turin, in the monumental complex of the Royal Palace and at the National Museum of Villa
Pisani in Strà-Venice; at the National Library of Cosenza and at the State Archive of Milan.
In 2009 the city of Paris housed her monumental sculptures in the Mairie of the 5 th
Arrondissement and in the streets of the historic centre. In Loreto she holds a solo exhibition
and in Spain several monumental sculptures are housed in the streets of Madrid. In the same
year at Guggenheim Collection in Venice there is the presentation of her monograph Maria
Cristina Carlini.
In 2010 in Reggio Calabria is held a solo exhibition of her works in the Aragonese Castle and
along the promenade.
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 40 th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between
Italy and China, her monumental work Viandanti (Wayfarers) was installed permanently in front
of the Italian Embassy in Beijing. Always in Beijing, in the Forbidden City, the solo exhibition
“Colloquio tra giganti” (“A Talk amongst Giants”) is inaugurated. Maria Cristina Carlini is the first
contemporary sculptress to exhibit in the imperial complex.
On the occasion of the 4th Art Biennial of Beijing her corten steel sculptures, Dancers, is
exhibited for the first time. Maria Cristina Carlini is then in Shanghai with two of her monumental
sculptures in conjunction with the World Expo 2010.
In the same period her works are exhibited in Denver, USA and in Cap D’Agde in Southern
France
Some of Maria Cristina Carlini’s large scale sculptures are permanently set in the following
places: City Museum of Pesaro, Central State Archive in Rome Eur, Court of Auditors of Milan,
new establishment in Rho of Milan International Fair, Pizza dei Valdesi in Cosenza, Paris,
Gardens of Porta Marina in Loreto, on Italo Falcomatà Promenade of Reggio Calabria, in the
Chinese cities of Beijing, Jinan and Tianjin and in the USA, Denver and Miami.
Her production has been followed by prominent curators and art critics, such as Luciano
Caramel, Gillo Dorfles, Yacouba Konatè, Elena Pontiggia.
Event details
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Location
Dates
Entrance
Opening hours
Merci Beaucoup! nuovi valori - nuovi oggetti
Fortunato D’Amico
Spazio A Ex Ansaldo Face to Superstudio Più
Via Tortona 54, 1st floor - Milan
12 - 17 april 2011
free admittance
10am – 9pm
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