Leaps, gaps and overlapping diagrams

Artists

Loris Cecchini

Press release

The branching and proliferating sculptures, which today are a cornerstone of Loris Cecchini’s practice, derive from his first experiments with modular sculpture, conducted twenty years ago. It was the unprecedented calculating power of the new three-dimensional modelling tools at the time that enabled a quantum leap in the three-factor diagram, which has always underpinned his work: nature, science, art. The power of technology combined with modularity opened up new operating spaces towards achieving an ancient goal, expressed in Cecchini’s own words: “Finally trying to break the Euclidean box in sculpture”. The exhibition at Ca’ Rezzonico presents a series of modular works that attempt to incorporate into their structure the potential interactions between the modules, and those between the modules and the expansion space determined by the external environment. In this sense they are constitutively and not episodically site-specific works, which are formed and function in relation to the context.

Curators: Luca Berta, Francesca Giubilei
Supported by Galleria Continua. In collaboration with VeniceArtFactory.