Mimma Russo
June 20 — July 21, 2013
In her most recent works, Mimma Russo has experimented with new materials such as papier-mâché, cardboard and eggshells combined with wood, her favourite means of expression which she has always used with technical expertise in the creation of her sculptures.
The forms elaborated by the artist with painstaking meticulousness are complex geometric structures, obtained by multiple sectioning or by modular adjuncts. In seemingly perpetual motion, the play of tension, cuts and torsions assume new forms with any change in perspective or the source of light.
Black, explored and examined in all of its multiple chromatic variants, is Russo’s only indulgence in colour and she subjects it to continuous re-elaboration aimed at conferring dynamism to the volumes. The material is rendered vibrant by light, which is captured by the porous surfaces and held within the spaces and grooves of the various stratifications of the wood or paper.