May 25th thru July 15th, 2006
curated by Julia Draganovic and Manon Slome
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 25th 6-8pm
Installation, Drawings and Performance
The Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation, is pleased
to announce an new exhibition, Nature, featuring the work of the
Italian sculptor and performance arist, Sissi. The exhibition will
be on view from May 25 to July 15 2006. The exhibition is curated
by Julia Draganovic and Manon Slome.
In Sissi’s work, there is a deep fascination with the natural
world in all its forms. This fascination begins with a sense of
her body within and connected to nature and is extended from the
body into the spaces of art by her innovative of use inorganic materials.
Sissi knits, weaves and grafts objects one to the other to embody
her sense of the interconnectedness of all aspects of the natural
world. As Sissi commented recently: “To think about the natural
brings me to a state of pure sensation. Just as nature reproduces
its forms, we humans reproduce our inner selves and embody that
spirit in the external world.”
For her upcoming installation, Nature, Sissi, with a sense of both
humor and the ability to see beauty in the most unexpected places,
has taken the humble nylon pot scourer, found in multi colors at
local dime stores, and sewn them into ropes which she will weave
together and hang from the ceiling like an elongated drip. She calls
this part of the installation, “Lenghthening nature”
for her concern is to create not a specific object but rather a
sense of a process, a stretching out of form, a falling away as
if the celling were melting and responding to the gravitational
pull of the earth. Sissi’s performance at the opening of the
exhibition will involve an interaction with this web of scourers.
Also included in the exhibition will be a selection of Sissi’s
diaries and drawings.
Sissi has been compiling her signature diaries for 10 years. The
diaries are not conventional records of daily experience but more
documents of the evolution of her feelings, a seed bed of ideas
where she works and evolves her pieces through drawing, notes, photographs,
collage and experiments of texture. Each diary represents a year
in her artistic journey, a record where she digests and improves
the process of her creations.
At only 29 Sissi is a dynamic force.
Her awards include:
In 2002 the Primo premio Premio Querini Stampalia-Furla per l’Arte,
from the Foundazione Querini of Stampalia, Venezia.
In 2003, the Primo premio XVIII Premio Alinovi a cura di R.
Barilli, R. Daolio, D’Auregli of the GAM Galleria d’Arte
Moderna, Bologna.
In 2005 Premio New York, Advanced Studies at Columbia University,
New York.
Previous Solo Shows include:
In 2001 “Aerea” at MoCa Miami
In 2003 “Interstice/Double Impact,” doppia personale
Sissi/Ian Kaier, curated by A. Demeester, Amsterdam
In 2004 “Nidi,” curated P.L. Tazzi, MACRO Gallery,
Rome
Nature is the second in a new series of exhibitions
recently launched by the Chelsea Art Museum under the title, INSIGHT.
These short run exhibitions will be devoted to cutting edge young
artists who have not yet enjoyed a solo showing of their work in
a New York museum.
Sissi’s show at the Chelsea Art Museum was made possible with
the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.
For more information please contact:
Chris Longfellow
Press Officer
The Chelsea Art Museum
Chris@chelseaartmuseum.org
212-255-0719 x 108
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