We Don’t Find The Pieces They Find Themselves

Name: We Don’t Find The Pieces They Find Themselves
Start: 2022-11-12 00:00:00
End: 2023-01-08 00:00:00
Location: MIC - International Museum of Ceramics

MIC - International Museum of Ceramics

Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

The show

Past and present intersect and refer to each other in a dual exhibition project dedicated to memory which opens at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza on 11 and 12 November 2022.

"We Don't Find The Pieces They Find Themselves" which opens on 12 November, at 12, in the Project Room and in the Sala delle ceramiche Faenza, to remain on display until 8 January 2023, aims to address the issues related to fragility and memory, narrating at the same time how Italian excellence and "know-how" is used to tidy up the chaos, giving a second life to works that would otherwise be lost forever or locked up in warehouses. A choral work in which the individual parts listen to each other and meet.

The exhibition is composed of different elements created using the language of video and sculpture, developed during different phases of research and production.

Initially, the artist worked on a video, proposing a poetic reinterpretation of the deposits and the restoration laboratory, where for years, work has been done to reconstruct the works in the museum's collection damaged during the war bombing. The video is made up of images of places, works, fragments, together with moments of work, stories, methodology and stimuli that inspire the restorers.

Later, Arancio created a new series of sculptures that will be exhibited in dialogue with the video. The glazed ceramic sculptures were created jointly during a series of workshops with the Museum's restorers, eliminating any hierarchical order between artist and craftsman. Assembling together elements created by different hands, modeled starting from an imaginative interpretation linked to the memory of works restored in the past by the laboratory. By reversing the usual roles, this time it will instead be the artist who will recompose together the fragments created by the restorers, giving shape to the sculptures, without prior knowledge of the work that initially inspired the forms of the "fragments".

For the exhibition, Salvatore Arancio has also created a series of artist's editions that can be purchased exclusively at the Museum bookshop.