Continuing to show a new generation of artists, the latest exhibition at the GAM in Turin, “Tempesta di Cervelli”, is dedicated to the work of Eva Marisaldi from Bologna, who recently also showed at the Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee in Rome. The works shown in what the artist herself has defined “the representation of the advent of corporeality, which departs from the mind to then forget itself” are all being shown for the first time, made specially for Turin in the space of a month, immediately after the opening at the end of September of the Rome exhibition.

Sound installations, sculptures, videos and drawings tell the everyday stories that the artist loves to describe. Starting with a series of delicate drawings which make up a story board and moving on to a sculptures, including a cardboard fish with brightly coloured scales made from confetti.

Many installations such as the puppet of a child sleeping, surrounded by sound or the two floor polishers which encounter one another in an arena. With many references to rock music, including the recording of a live concert in a forest in which the band never appears and the camera instead follows the movement of the lights, the only thing visible.

In the last room are three pieces, a fireplace shaped like a cat’s head from which emerges a miaow (the recording of rock songs sung whilst listening to a walkman); an electric guitar which continually moves, moving to and from an amplifier creating a Larsen effect. The exhibition concludes with a small arena where two cleaners dressed in specially made garments, move in a disturbing way, engaged in a never ending struggle.

until 15.1.2003
Tempesta di cervelli
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e Contemporanea di Torino
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