Museum of the Twentieth Century. On display are the works of Loris Cecchini, winner of the ACACIA award
Museum of the Twentieth Century. On display are the works of Loris Cecchini, winner of the ACACIA award
Invitation 2020, the contemporary art exhibition will be held in the museum rooms from 8 September to 31 January 2021
Milan, September 4 2020 - On the occasion of MIART and the Art Week 2020 promoted by the Municipality of Milan, the Museo del Novecento presents INVITO 2020, the exhibition dedicated to the artist who won the ACACIA Award - Associazione Amici Arte Contemporanea Italiana, which for the fifth year is located in the rooms of the museum, consolidating the collaboration between public and private entities, with the common objective of preserving and deepening the study of the most recent artistic experiments. The exhibition will be inaugurated on 8 September and will remain on display until 31 January 2021.
The 2020 edition, the seventeenth, features Loris Cecchini, one of the most internationally established Italian artists, with the works Waterbones (177) and Aeolian Landforms (Dahkla 137C), from 2020, which thanks to the generosity of ACACIA enter be part of the museum collection.
Loris Cecchini's recent work draws inspiration from meditation on the concept of "organism": a continuously evolving system that self-generates, building its growth starting from a module, as happens in architecture or in language analysis. The artist's imagination is conveyed by subtle research into materials, from rubber to plastics to metals.
The installation Waterbones (177) is part of a series of works created since 2009 in which the artist focuses on the study and investigation of the deep structure of matter. Literally "water bones", the work is made up of stainless steel modules that can be assembled together in multiple variations. In this way the material takes on a double value: it is solid like a bone structure, but at the same time it is fluid and mouldable like a flow of water.
Subjects appearing in Loris Cecchini's work include multiple collages and detailed architectural models, reinvented caravans and treehouses, structurally distorted spaces, and prismatic, transparent surfaces.
Loris Cecchini's work joins those of Mario Airò, Rosa Barba, Rossella Biscotti, Monica Bonvicini, Gianni Caravaggio, Maurizio Cattelan, Roberto Cuoghi, Rä di Martino, Lara Favaretto, Linda Fregni Nagler, Francesco Gennari, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Marzia Miglior, Adrian Paci, Paola Pivi, Luca Trevisani, Grazia Toderi, Tatiana Trouvé, Marcella Vanzo, Nico Vascellari, Francesco Vezzoli, donated to the Museo del Novecento by the ACACIA Association.
LORIS CECCHINI
Born in Milan in 1969, he studied painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Milan. He has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions held in prestigious museums, including Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain di Saint-Étienne Métropole, MoMA PS1 in New York, Shanghai Duolun MoMA in Shanghai, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago di Compostela, Kunstverein of Heidelberg, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan. Cecchini has participated in numerous international exhibitions including the 56th, 51st and 49th Venice Biennale, the 6th and 9th Shanghai Biennale, the 15th and 13th Rome Quadrennial, the Taiwan Biennial in Taipei, the Valencia Biennial in Spain, the 12th International Sculpture Biennial of Carrara, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, Macro Future in Rome. There are also numerous permanent and site-specific installations, in particular at Villa Celle in Pistoia and in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels and for the Cleveland Clinic's Arts & Medicine Institute in the United States, at Les Terrasses Du Port of Marseille and recently on the facade of the Lazzerini library in Prato, as well as in The Tata Innovation Center in New York.
Updated: 04/09/2020