Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder presents at Domgasse 6 Appear by Disappearing,
a solo exhibition by Italian artist Amalia Del Ponte curated by Roberta Tenconi as part of the curated by festival.
Taking its name from Amalia Del Ponte's notable 1970 sculpture Apparire/scomparendo, the exhibition Appear by Disappearing delves into the artist’s six-decade-long exploration of the ephemeral and the tangible, challenging the common notions of objecthood and the environment we inhabit.
Born in Milan in 1936, Del Ponte is a polyhedric artist whose pioneer research spans visual art and sound, and also extends into design, architecture, and jewelry. By continually pushing the boundaries of these disciplines, she has developed innovative approaches to materials and forms. Renowned for her groundbreaking sculptures, such as the iconic Plexiglass prisms known as Tropi-derived from the Greek tropos, meaning ‘turning’ or ‘change’, a term also serving as a rhetorical figure denotating deviation and transposition of meaning-and for her environmental installation Area Percettiva [Perceptual Area], with which she won the First Prize for Sculpture at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1973, Del Ponte's work embodies a profound engagement with principles of light, nature and technology.
AMALIA DEL PONTE
Amalia Del Ponte was born in 1936 in Milan, where she currently lives and works. From 1956 to 1961, she attended the sculpture class by Marino Marini at Accademia di Brera in Milan together with other artists such as Kengiro Azuma, Mario Robaudi and Gianni Colombo. In the 1960s, Amalia Del Ponte began investigating materials and her nearly scientific approach led her to create basic and pure shapes. In the 1960s, Amalia Del Ponte also designed the interiors of the Gulp! store and of the first Fiorucci store in Milan. She became internationally acclaimed in 1973, when she was invited by Bruno Munari and Umbro Apollonio to participate in the São Paulo Art Biennial presenting her environment Area Percettiva, with which she won the First Prize for Sculpture. In 1993, Amalia Del Ponte exhibited her works at Fort Asperen in Asperen in the Netherlands. In 1995, Gillo Dorfles dedicated an entire room to her work in the Italian Pavilion at the 46th Venice Art Biennale, where she exhibited her sound-making stones, Litofoni, works of art that investigate the invisible relationship between geometric shapes and musical or color scales. In 2010, at Isola della Certosa in the Venetian Lagoon, she conceived Regno dei possibili invisibili, a video-installation inside the four pillboxes on the island (former Austrian gun sites built right on the shore). In the last few years, Amalia Del Ponte has been at the center of a research program aimed at re-positioning her work in the Italian art scene of the second half of the twentieth century. These new studies led to a solo show at Museo del Novecento and Studio Museo Francesco Messina in Milan in 2017.
ROBERTA TENCONI
Roberta Tenconi is Chief Curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, where she curated solo shows by artists including Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba, Neïl Beloufa, Maurizio Cattelan, Petrit Halilaj, Ann Veronica Janssens, Eva Kot’átková, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Laure Prouvost, Nari Ward, and Cerith Wyn Evans among others. Focused on collaborating with artists in commissioning and producing experimental and ambitious projects in unconventional spaces and complex contexts, her upcoming curated projects include solo shows by artists Saodat Ismailova and Nan Goldin. As part of the curatorial team of the 55th Venice Biennale, “The Encyclopedic Palace” (2013), and of the fourth Berlin Biennale (2006), she collaborated with museums, institutions, foundations and non-profit associations across the world on various projects and programs such as at the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, the Gwangju Biennale, the Aïshti Foundation and Manifesta. Roberta Tenconi has edited various artist monographs and volumes and regularly contributes to art catalogues and magazines and to lectures and courses in art and curatorial studies.
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