Stefano Arienti - COLLEZIONE GORI

Stefano Arienti (Asola, 1961 – )

During the restoration of the Cascina Terrarossa e series of new exhibition spaceswere created and inaugurated, on June 28, 1996, with two temporary solo shows by Stefano Arienti and Hossein Golba; both young artists were subsequently invited to design site-specific permanent works for the Fattoria di Celle.

In this first experience at the Gori Collection, Arientiworked on the first floor of the Cascina where, as Stefania Gori wrote in her presentation to the exhibition: “in a succession of small irregular rooms born over time without apparent constructive logic, Stefano Arienti proposes an initiatory path that, in one continuous installation, leads the visitor through seven small spaces.” The latter displayed aluminum sheets, perforated with cuts and holes,covering the rooms’ glass windows, thus creating slight drawings in spaces of emptiness and absence. The one exception was located in the final room of the itinerary where walls covered with sheets of gold-colored aluminum brilliantly reflected the light from the small window opening onto the countryside: in this way the space became an intimate and precious refuge connected to the greenery.

The experience of 1996 finds continuity in the permanent installation that the artist created in 2016 for the same rooms he had worked in twenty years earlier, which he makes into a kind of suggested studio space. Materials and techniques of various kinds, developed by the artist over the years, are employed to reveal his interest in existing situations as well as his sensitivity to all the types of spaces offered by the Fattoriadi Celle. In the rooms, we find drawings on large plastic canvases;the artist’s photographs of nature at Celle,sometimes integrated with puzzle pieces;plasticineappliedto posters depicting masterpieces of spontaneous blooms; and, finally, scenes of rural life. “So, finally, this is where Stefano Arienti is waiting for us now that, twenty years later, he has returned to Celle to stay. This time his works capture the profound history of the place while, simultaneously, clearly revealing the artist’s secret: using little action, in an almost invisible way, he loads the most common daily objects and the most familiar and well-known images with poetic meaning.” Mattia Patti, “Beyond Borders” in Stefano Arienti. Residenza a Terrarossa, Gli Ori, Pistoia, 2016, p.74.

Works by the artist

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