As part of the Cagli Week for the Pesaro 2024 project “50×50 Capitals squared”, The Municipality of Cagli And Pesaro Museums present the personal exhibition of Giovanni Termini, How do you put it?edited by Marcello Smarrelli can be visited in the evocative sixteenth-century spaces Palazzo Tiranni-Castracane, from 13 April to 30 June 2024.
Organized with the collaboration of Cariaggi, historic spinning mill of Cagli, the exhibition presents a selection of sculptural works including a new and site-specific one which gives the exhibition its title. The choice of the exhibition itinerary follows the coordinates that guide the programme Pesaro 2024relating to the relationship between art, nature, technology, elements that represent as many cornerstones of the artist’s research.
Born in Assoro (EN) in 1972, but Pesaro by adoption, Giovanni Termini it is placed in a trajectory of contemporary Italian sculpture that starts from Lucio Fontana up to the experience of Arte Povera. His creations are permeated by a material vitalism based on the reuse and reworking of objects taken from reality, configuring themselves as “artifacts” that explicitly claim a technology of execution. A process that opens up to the dictates of the materials, outlining a narrative around man and his nature. Firmly located in a space and projected into a temporal dimension, the artist declares in an interview: “I think that creativity feeds precisely on the conflicts that it tries, in vain, to quell. I don’t see any other incentives for research.”
The sense of doing that moves Termini is expressed in the series of works on display, which measure themselves with the theme of work starting from the site-specific installation How do you put it? (2024), made with materials from the Cariaggi company, in close dialogue with the architecture of the room that hosts it characterized by a blue decoration obtained with the use of woad, up to Constructive dialogue (2017), a work dedicated to the great master Eliseo Mattiacci, originally from Cagli.
The productive universe he explores is often linked to the act of building and the space of the construction site, recurring here through the poetic disguise of technical tools, such as the scaffolding used in the work Hully Gully (2022). It can always be brought back to the context of the work Circumscribed (2016), a work originally conceived as a comment on the nursery tradition of the city of Pistoia, openly inspired by Third landscape manifesto by the famous French gardener and landscape designer Gilles Clément, who introduces the theme of the relationship with nature. The latter is always understood in relation to man, part of his very being, but in a precarious balance that seems to govern this relationship. A precariousness that recurs as a founding principle of his sculptural grammar, often through the insertion of “incongruous” elements, as in In-solid carpet (2021) or not The balance of the incongruous (2018), which surprise the ordinary perception of the viewer.
In fact, a decisive game is played around the material in the sculptor’s work, who often makes use of ordinary objects subjected to technological manipulation processes such as galvanisation, used for example in Cord (2021) and more The mirroring of divergences (2022).
This treatment, usually applied to metal surfaces to increase resistance to corrosion, represents for the artist an attempt to respond to the vitality of the materials, to arrest their inevitable decay by fixing their appearance. This is, however, an attempt doomed to defeat, as the chemical-physical alteration continues under the metal coating, leaving the work to the paradox of ambiguity.
A plastic interest is also highlighted by Termini in the use of other media, such as photography. In the diptych The measurement of a distance (2022-23), part of the surface of the work is removed, revealing the metal support, giving visibility and, consequently, relief to the image support.
On the occasion of the exhibition Giovanni Termini, How do you put it? a catalog will be published edited by Simone Ciglia, published by Arti Grafiche della Torre.
Giovanni Termini – How do you put it?
By Marcello Smarrelli
Palazzo Tiranni-Castracane, via Purgotti 51, 61043 Cagli PU
13 April – 30 June 2024
With the collaboration of
CARIAGGI
Catalog edited by Simone Ciglia, Graphic Arts editions of the Tower
Timetables Saturday and Sunday 11am – 6pm Free admission
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