Francesco Arena
Envisaged as an anthology of the artist’s work, the exhibit presents eight works which are distinctive in terms of materials and subject matter and have been realized over the course of a long period of time.
In Arena’s work, the physical characteristics of each type of material correspond to specific poetic needs: stone, bronze, steel, ash are always used in relation to concepts of space and time and the temporal intervals between memorable events in our collective history and the individual events in the artist’s life are translated into units of measure which determine the dimensions and the sense of his sculptures. The duration, thus, becomes something tangible.
Each of the works presented in this solo exhibit at the Studio Trisorio is installed in one of the eight corners of the exhibit space almost as if to indicate the coordinates of a non-linear temporal path.
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Francesco Arena
Otto angoli, 2021
