The La vita materiale (Corporeal life) exhibition inaugurates a new season of contemporary art in the Palazzo Magnani Foundation presenting the research of eight Italian artists united by the employment and regeneration of materials often humble and traditionally associated with crafts that find an original space in their artistic work. The intent of the exhibition is the desire to enhance a female artistic practice that cleverly connects the artistic path to personal experience and the link between art and life in all its complexity and fertility.

The exhibition route aims to involve and interrogate the five senses, because our experience of the real world passes through the body which creates a synesthesia with its surroundings. It is a body-world; for this reason at the opening of the exhibition “the tree of the body” perceived and told by Claudia Losi and the velarium on a “body landscape”, staged by Elena El Asmar, become a happy prologue to the eight rooms.

The spectator is invited to discover eight habitats, eight environments to which each artist has given a title; rooms like cocoons, in which each of the creators has proposed their own world and in which it clearly appears that matter, in its transformation processes, is something “organic” and vital. They present themselves in a confident manner, which does not distort and intimidate the visitor, but which favors his ability to venture into the game of discovery.

The exhibition offers interesting connections with the anthological exhibition that Palazzo Magnani dedicates, at the same time, to Jean Dubuffet.

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