Chiara Capellini – Dialogo in Silenzio

“Dialogo in Silenzio” presenta un’installazione site-specific pensata dall’artista Chiara Capellini per gli spazi consacrati della Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Monache, che invita i visitatori a diventare parte di una conversazione silenziosa tra le opere esposte e la sacralità del luogo.

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"I have always tried to understand the imagination.
Where is it formed? Are there places, images or situations in which it
is facilitated? While researching, I have found that, in chaos, the mind
tries to put things in order; creatively it proposes formal solutions to
what is undefined, as if it is forced to solve an unclear vision.
Standing and observing chaos being slightly organized into possible
forms reminds me of the moment before the meditation, when the
mind tries to remove thoughts, remove forms that become images. It
is a calm but full and deep place. The mind is active, seeking, but
slightly, as when we slowly focus on looking at a landscape. There
are no formed thoughts, no philosophies, people or meanings, only a
present observation.
Standing and observing as if lost in the fog without giving oneself an
explanation; passing between abstract and figurative, between image
and color, between the meaningful and the nothing, destroying and
recreating images without judgment, and continuing to choose or not
to choose. This, I think, is the place of imagination, where I don't
know and I search without having to give explanations."
Chiara Capellini
Chiara Capellini's exhibition "Dialogo in Silenzio" (Dialogue in Silence)
is articulated within the consecrated spaces of the Church of San
Bernardino alle Monache, presenting itself as a silent conversation
between the visitors, the works and the sacredness of the place. The
disposition of the paintings - which show their backs to the entrance -
combined with the observer's need to turn his back to the altar in order
to look at the painted surfaces, produces a confrontation between
spirituality and artistic creativity, which is to be resolved through
silence.
The choice to paint works that don’t represent anything and don’t seek
the figurative, but focus on actions such as putting on and taking off
colors, assimilates the act of painting and its result to a sort of
meditation. In this way, the installation becomes an opportunity to
reflect on the relationship between art and spirituality through a
meditation on emptiness. The silence that surrounds the installation is
the tool that helps us to get in contact with the nothingness, with the
unknown.
The exhibition, organized by Zuecca Projects, will be on view from April
12 to 19 at the Church of San Bernardino alle Monache, Milan, from
10:30 am to 7:30 pm, with free admission. "Dialogo in Silenzio" is part
of the program of 5VIE Design Week 2023.
CHIARA CAPELLINI
Chiara Capellini studied at Naba in Milan, where she lives and works.
Her work has been exhibited in Italian and International museums
and galleries, such as: This is Arcade, London (2021); Triennale,
Milan (2014); Italian Institute of Culture, Stockholm (2013); Arte in
Sarpi, Milan (2012); Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan (2012); Idroscalo, Milan
(2011); Pure Evil Gallery, London (2010); Fuori Biennale, Venice
(2007); Pac, Milan (2007).
@chiara_capellini
ZUECCA PROJECTS
Zuecca Projects is a private non-profit organization founded in 2011 by
Alessandro Possati, its Director. Zuecca Projects acts as a platform of
connection and dialogue, through the conception, curation and
production of art, architecture and cultural projects in the city of Venice
and around the world. The projects organized by Zuecca Projects
include international artists and architects such as Ali Kazma and
Giuseppe Stampone (2011), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2012), Pierre Huyghe
(2012), Ai Weiwei (2013), Eisenman Architects (2014), John Giorno
(2015), Slater B. Bradley (2016), AVL - JOEP VAN LIESHOUT (2016 -
2022), Marina Abramovic (2017), TO Arquitectos (2018), Juergen
Teller (2019), Christo and Jeanne-Claude Estate (2021), Coldefy
(2021), Hermann Nitsch (2022), to name a few.
www.zueccaprojects.org
@zuecca_project_space