Mimma Russo
May 30 — September 3, 2018
Museo del Novecento, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples
The show, realized by the Campania “Polo Museale” together with the Studio Trisorio, is part of a series of in-depth analyses which the Museum is dedicating to the masters of their collection by presenting the artists’ most recent productions and renewing the collection with the works which are donated at the end of the exhibit.
Mimma Russo will be exhibiting eight never before shown works, realized between 2013 and 2018, in which the use of materials such as glass and steel are introduced. Her works are characterised by compositional rigour and the almost exclusive use of black. Her tones of black, the result of research and experimentation, verge on vantablack (the darkest substance known which absorbs up to 99% of light) and give life to extraordinarily profound yet, concurrently, reflective surfaces with various tonal implications in which the translucid or reflecting elements confer a tridimensional, vibrante aspect which acts as a counterpoint to the opacity of the dominant colour.
A large iron and stell sculpture, conceived in relation to the spaces of Castel Sant’Elmo and positioned in the moat, serves to introduce the exhibit and will be donated by the artist thus becoming part of the Novecento Museum’s permanant collection.