Wunderkammer
Ilaria Cuccagna | Ossimori
preview 13 Dicembre 2016 h. 18.30
da un’idea di Jean Claude Mosconi | a cura di Francesca Pagliuca
14 dicembre 2016 - 4 febbraio 2017
Ilaria Cuccagna, Ossimori, 2016, mixed media, variable dimensions
Quinto appuntamento di Wunderkammer, un progetto di cultura che offre uno spazio aperto a nuovi mecenati che desiderino presentare e promuovere l’opera di artisti italiani. L’artista selezionata , con la curatela di Francesca Pagliuca, Ilaria Cuccagna è presentata da Jean Claude Mosconi.
Ilaria Cuccagna è nata a Cesena nel 1981, vive e lavora a Como.
Dopo gli studi di scultura e fotografia presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino e la Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Universidad Politécnica di Valencia, dal 2008 inizia a collaborare con fonderie artistiche in Italia, Inghilterra e Svizzera contribuendo alla realizzazione di numerose opere di scultura in bronzo.
Ha partecipato a mostre collettive e personali, in Italia e all’estero, tra cui nel 2011 Abecedario della storia sotto il tappeto, MAR museo Ravenna, Officine dell’Arte -dai workshop di Stefano Arienti e Italo Zuffi- presso Careof-Fabbrica del Vapore a Milano e nel 2016 Migratio -Mdina-Valletta-, personale presso Spazio Splendid a Valletta. Partecipa al FDV Residency Program presso Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano e al workshop del coreografo Marcos Morau a cura di associazione Cantieri, Ravenna. Nel 2015 è tra gli artisti invitati alla Mdina Contemporary Art Biennale (Malta) dove realizza dei progetti site specific in relazione alla storia e al contesto socio-culturale del territorio. Sempre nello stesso anno è invitata a collaborare come docente universitario con il Dipartimento di Storia dell’Arte dell’Università di Malta, conducendo workshop di tecniche per la scultura. Nel 2016 prende parte al progetto Stage as a social platform, workshop di produzione della performance Continuum di Luigi Coppola, presso Viafarini, Milano. Nello stesso anno è selezionata dal programma residences exchange project Rad’Art-Bòlit come artista in residenza presso Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani di Girona.
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Riccardo Crespi gallery presents Ilaria Cuccagna. Ossimori, fifth show of the Wunderkammer, a participatory culture project: a space in the gallery is being offered to new patrons who desire to present and promote the work of Italian artists. The chosen artist, selected by Jean Claude Mosconi, and with Francesca Pagliuca’s curation, is Ilaria Cuccagna. Cuccagna’s research explores memory, process and temporality concepts, through observance, which slowly conquers its own physical form, also integrating with the artist’s personal experiences.
The Ossimori project presents a series of works, which move on a double track: mostly, elements taken from the natural world are conversating with the result of human intervention. The differences, altough strong, tend to dissolve. The opposite forces put together influence each other, up to the point of merging into one. This happened in Vivrà finché ne avrai cura, where the natural bronze oxidation process is being emphasied by the presence of moss humidity; or in Ossimori, a series of diptyches in which the natural elements integrate themselves into the stone veinings in an almost mimetic manner. Following this dual overlook, the exhibited sculptures reveal a study which originates from listening, from exploring the surface, and finds its fullfilment deep, in the gaze that digs into the matter, looking for what regulates its inner balance.
Ilaria Cuccagna was born in Cesena in 1981, she lives and works in Como.
After her studies in sculpture and photography at Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino and Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Universidad Politécnica di Valencia, since 2008 she starts collaborating with artistic foundries in Italy, England and Switzerland, contributing to the realisation of many bronze sculptures.
She participated in group shows and solo exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad, amongst which in 2011 Abecedario della storia sotto il tappeto, MAR Ravenna museum, Officine dell’Arte - workshop by Stefano Arienti and Italo Zuffi- at Careof-Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan and in 2016 Migratio -Mdina-Valletta-, solo show at Spazio Splendid in Valletta. She partecipated in the FDV Residency Program at Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan and in the workshop by coreographer Marcos Morau curated by Cantieri association, Ravenna. In 2015 she is among the artists invited to Mdina Contemporary Art Biennale (Malta), where she realised site-specific projects in relation to the territory’s socio-cultural history and context. In the same year, Cuccagna was invited to collaborate as university professor in the Malta University’s department of History of Art, managing workshops about sculptural techniques. In 2016, she takes part in the Stage as a social platform project, a workshop about the production os Luigi Coppola Continuum performance at Viafarini, Milan. In the same year, she is selected from the programme residences exchange project Rad’Art-Bòlit, as artist in residence at Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani in Girona.
The Ossimori project presents a series of works, which move on a double track: mostly, elements taken from the natural world are conversating with the result of human intervention. The differences, altough strong, tend to dissolve. The opposite forces put together influence each other, up to the point of merging into one. This happened in Vivrà finché ne avrai cura, where the natural bronze oxidation process is being emphasied by the presence of moss humidity; or in Ossimori, a series of diptyches in which the natural elements integrate themselves into the stone veinings in an almost mimetic manner. Following this dual overlook, the exhibited sculptures reveal a study which originates from listening, from exploring the surface, and finds its fullfilment deep, in the gaze that digs into the matter, looking for what regulates its inner balance.
Ilaria Cuccagna was born in Cesena in 1981, she lives and works in Como.
After her studies in sculpture and photography at Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino and Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Universidad Politécnica di Valencia, since 2008 she starts collaborating with artistic foundries in Italy, England and Switzerland, contributing to the realisation of many bronze sculptures.
She participated in group shows and solo exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad, amongst which in 2011 Abecedario della storia sotto il tappeto, MAR Ravenna museum, Officine dell’Arte - workshop by Stefano Arienti and Italo Zuffi- at Careof-Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan and in 2016 Migratio -Mdina-Valletta-, solo show at Spazio Splendid in Valletta. She partecipated in the FDV Residency Program at Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan and in the workshop by coreographer Marcos Morau curated by Cantieri association, Ravenna. In 2015 she is among the artists invited to Mdina Contemporary Art Biennale (Malta), where she realised site-specific projects in relation to the territory’s socio-cultural history and context. In the same year, Cuccagna was invited to collaborate as university professor in the Malta University’s department of History of Art, managing workshops about sculptural techniques. In 2016, she takes part in the Stage as a social platform project, a workshop about the production os Luigi Coppola Continuum performance at Viafarini, Milan. In the same year, she is selected from the programme residences exchange project Rad’Art-Bòlit, as artist in residence at Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani in Girona.
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