{"id":8661,"date":"2014-11-06T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:06:12","slug":"at-the-show-with-the-artist-author-chiara-zocchi-visits-gianni-caravaggios-retrospective-finally-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/11\/06\/at-the-show-with-the-artist-author-chiara-zocchi-visits-gianni-caravaggios-retrospective-finally-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"At the show with the artist: novelist Chiara Zocchi visits Gianni Caravaggio’s current double retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gianni Caravaggio, Il mistero nascosto in una nuvola, 2013, graphite on paper, 49×68,5×6 cm, Courtesy Kaufman Repetto Milano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gianni Caravaggio, Sugar no sugar molecule, 2002, White Carrara marble, bardiglio mearble, sugar cubes, 100x100x40 cm, Courtesy the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gianni Caravaggio, Poco prima del sistema solare, 2008, Polistirene, otto sfere di alluminio, bronzo, zinco, soia gialla, 160x90x120 cm, Courtesy Collezione Maramotti Reggio Emilia, Photo: Roberto Marossi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gianni Caravaggio, Immagine seme, 2011, Black absolut marble from Belgium, dust, 143×148,7×2,5 cm , Courtesy Collezione Maramotti Reggio Emilia, Photo: Dario Lasagni.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gianni Caravaggio, Sotto la superficie, la verit\u00e0 della concretezza (Monza), 2014, Plotter printed photo on bluback-paper, zinc, 255x160x20 cm, Courtesy Tucci Russo Studio per l\u2019Arte contemporanea Torre Pellice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For its \u201cAt the show with the artist\u201d section generally Conceptual Fine Arts asks contemporary artists to visit an exhibition dedicated to traditional art and then to give their personal, original, creative, sight on it. In this case we have tried to make a step forward. Our unconventional \u201ceye\u201d has been that of the Italian author Chiara Zocchi, mainly known to the public for her novel Olga (<\/a>Garzanti, 1996), and recently invited by Thomas Hirschhorn to take part to his \u201cFlamme \u00c9ternelle\u201d<\/a> project at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. She has been to visit Gianni Caravaggio’s current double retrospective at the Mus\u00e9e d’Art Contemporaine Saint-\u00c9tienne M\u00e9tropole<\/a>, and at the MAGA<\/a>, Varese: Finalmente solo\/Enfin seul. Here is what she has \u201cseen\u201d (Scroll down for the original Italian version).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Six thoughts that I have seen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thought I\u2019ve seen are enormous sugar-cubes made of marble and Styrofoam, which will never melt as they are called \u201cmolecule\u201d, despite one, which seems what actually is: sugar made of sugar.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second thought, a marble flake (<\/span><\/em>bardiglio nuvolato<\/span>) has torn a printed sky, on which two-dimensional, fixed clouds pass through. <\/span><\/em>Nuvole<\/span> and <\/span><\/em>nuvolato<\/span>, drawn closer, go different white paths, as their clash was nothing but an hint of enthusiasm stemmed from their affinity.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, these different paths, drawn on the flake and on the chipped picture, will meet again, after the clash, to create a new possibility of matter, and new types of clouds.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third thought is a black box, upon which the same seems to be dissolving into another self, albeit of a different nature, while wittily observing what\u2019s happening around her: she is in fact named Witness. She is black as she hopes that in this dark, she would be able to conceal the part of her she is the most ashamed of, her softness. Her black might (possibly) embody a frozen shelter against \u201can astral speed\u201d she once underwent somewhere, and which led her to confuse her viewers. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth thought is a flat, holed sun which is rising (every time you look at it), on the ground. Under its shade, like an oval hut where everything that is born is new, its light shines, and it seems to be made of talco. Thus, the real talco ought to find a new name. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another position, a further thought, the fifth:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sheet of paper is made of paper<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a pile of paper is made of rock.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this rock-of-paper is punched by an invisible sphere.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around it, scattered, feel ashamed the circles that have been ordinarily unwrapped. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s up to us to imagine the cutting and the carving which, while we look at them, keep repeating in form of invisible gestures.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six thought, in this sort of universe, is another Universe, en abyme, but a negative one. A spongy body that however isn\u2019t made of sponge, a white one, as the mystery in it has been totally wiped out, while some stars of black lentils change the nature of another word, and of another matter.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these bodies gravitate on the ground, to be seen and known at a first glance (maybe). <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They appear to be so close despite being so far. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an intrinsic distance, which projects on whoever look at them a deceptive sight, by making them feel isolated, plunged in their own nothingness, full of silence. They seem to be accompanied, yet they are lonely, as alone was he who \u201ccreated\u201d them and (at last) alone is who manage to take a look at them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sei Pensieri che ho visto.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il primo pensiero che ho visto sono enormi-cubetti di zucchero in marmo e in polistirolo, che non si scioglieranno mai poich\u00e9 si chiamano “molecole”, fatta eccezione per uno, che sembra ci\u00f2 che appare: zucchero fatto di zucchero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il secondo, una scaglia in marmo (bardiglio “nuvolato”), che ha strappato un cielo stampato, su cui nuvole bidimensionali passano da ferme. Nuvole e “nuvolato”, accostati, prendono bianche strade diverse, anche se lo scontro era avvenuto sulla spinta dell’entusiasmo dovuto alla somiglianza. Ma comunque, queste strade diverse, disegnate sulla scheggia e sulla fotografia scheggiata, si incontrano, dopo lo scontro, in una nuova possibilit\u00e0 di materia e in nuovi tipi di nuvole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il terzo \u00e8 una scultura nera, sulla cui spigolosit\u00e0 si sta sciogliendo una se stessa che sembra essere di altra natura, e che osserva intorno a s\u00e9 a causa del suo nome: Testimone. E’ nera poich\u00e9 spera di occultare in un eventuale buio la parte di cui pi\u00f9 si vergogna, quella che rimanda al suo sembrare morbida. Il suo nero \u00e8 (forse) la difesa fossilizzata nei confronti di una “velocit\u00e0 astrale” sub\u00ecta non si sa quando, che l’ha portata a confondere formalmente chi la osserva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il quarto, un sole piatto e bucato che sta sorgendo (ogni volta che lo si guarda), per terra. Sotto la sua ombra, che \u00e8 come una capanna ellittica in cui tutto ci\u00f2 che nasce \u00e8 nuovo, la sua luce brilla a puntini, ed \u00e8 fatta di borotalco. Dunque il vero borotalco dovr\u00e0 trovare un altro nome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In un altra posizione, un altro pensiero, il quinto:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

un foglio di carta \u00e8 di carta,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mentre una pila di carta \u00e8 di roccia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E questa roccia-di-carta \u00e8 bucata da una sfera invisibile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intorno, sparsi, si vergognano i cerchi che sono stati scartati in modo ordinato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sta a noi immaginare il tagliare e l’intagliare, che mentre osserviamo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

si ripetono in forma di gesti invisibili.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il sesto, in questa specie di universo, \u00e8 un altro Universo, en abyme, ma negativo. Un corpo spugnoso che per\u00f2 non \u00e8 fatto di spugna, ed \u00e8 bianco, poich\u00e9 in esso il mistero \u00e8 stato completamente cancellato, mentre delle stelle di lenticchie nere modificano la natura di un’altra parola e di un’altra materia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tutti questi corpi gravitano a terra, per farsi vedere e conoscere con un solo sguardo (forse).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Si mostrano vicini pur essendo lontanissimi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>E’ una lontananza intrinseca, che proietta su chi li guarda una visione fuorviante, mostrandoli isolati, immersi in un loro (e in un proprio) nulla, pieno di silenzio. Sembrano accompagnati, ma sono soli, come da solo era chi li ha “creati” e (finalmente) solo chi riesce ad osservarli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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