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.