From 12 March to 12 June 2022
The exhibition, curated by Valerio Dehò , offers a series of sculptures by Marzio Cialdi , of great impact aimed at raising public awareness of the looming problem of global warming and uncontrolled climate change. Cialdi's gaze embraces contemporary man in his problems and launches alarm signals for a future that has already begun. The artist's vision is a cry of alarm that is associated with those in society who are fighting for the climate and the prevention of a catastrophe that seems to be announced on the planet. Art too contributes to creating a critical awareness of the uncontrolled industrial development that increasingly threatens the planet Earth.
In the exhibition, divided into three locations (Palazzo Broletto, Piazza della Vittoria and S. Maria Gualtieri), there are 7 installations, 6 sculptures, including large ones, and a video projected in S. Maria Gualtieri. A vast and articulated work with different languages and materials because it ranges from ceramics, to cortén steel, from glass to printed sheet metal, in a path that connects the Broletto to Piazza della Vittoria and to S. Maria Gualtieri. After all, Cialdi's sculpture is articulated by different languages and techniques expressed with a unitary style. In “Global warming” he wants to represent a dystopian world, imagining a universe modified by high temperatures, a deformed world in which the most solid materials are attacked by the increasingly uncontrollable climate.
There is an installation entitled "Pompeii" in which it seems to witness an archaeological discovery, fragments of a past that emerge after the catastrophe. Also the series of works collected under the title “Mechanical movements” give the idea of a force that drags towards a negative solution, steel tracks that metaphorically push the events around us towards an inevitable climate change. But there are also poetic works, which evoke moments of reflection sculptures that appear unknown divinities of a world to come, such as "Kafa".
Cialdi's gaze embraces contemporary man in his problems, launches alarm signals for a future that has already begun. In S. Maria Gualtieri the video that documents the suffering of nature and the attack on the ecosystem is the background of collapsed glass, of a "Disc of time" that collects fragments of dispersed civilizations. Signs of a world that is changing in a perhaps unstoppable way. The artist's vision is a cry of alarm that is associated with those in society who are fighting for the climate and the prevention of a catastrophe that seems to be announced on the planet. Art too contributes to creating a critical awareness of the uncontrolled industrial development that increasingly threatens the planet Earth.
Piazza della Vittoria, Pavia, Italy
Opening hours
opens - closes | last entry | |
monday | 14:00 - 18:00 | |
tuesday | Closed now | |
wednesday | 14:00 - 18:00 | |
thursday | 14:00 - 18:00 | |
friday | 11:00 - 19:00 | |
saturday | 11:00 - 19:00 | |
sunday | 11:00 - 19:00 |
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