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May 25, 2006- June 15, 2006
Sissi
Chelsea Art Museum
556 W 22nd StThe Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation, is pleased to announce a new exhibition, Nature, featuring the work of Italian sculptor and performance arist, Sissi. The show will be on view from May 25 to July 15, 2006 and is curated by Julia Draganovic and Manon Slome.
In Sissi’s work, there is a deep fascination with the natural world in all its forms. This fascination begins with a sense of her body within and connected to nature and is extended from the body into the spaces of art by her innovative use of inorganic materials. Sissi knits, weaves and grafts objects one to the other to embody her sense of the interconnectedness of all aspects of the natural world. As Sissi commented recently: “To think about the natural brings me to a state of pure sensation. Just as nature reproduces its forms, we humans reproduce our inner selves and embody that spirit in the external world.”
For her upcoming installation, Nature, Sissi, with a sense of both humor and the ability to see beauty in the most unexpected places, has taken the humble nylon pot scourer, found in multi-colors at local dime stores, and sewn them into ropes which she will weave together and hang from the ceiling like an elongated drip.
She calls this part of the installation, “Lenghthening nature” for her concern is to create not a specific object but rather a sense of a process, a stretching out of form, a falling away as if the ceiling were melting and responding to the gravitational pull of the earth. Sissi’s performance at the opening of the exhibition will involve an interaction with this web of scourers.
Also included in the exhibition will be a selection of Sissi’s diaries and drawings. Sissi has been compiling her signature diaries for 10 years. The diaries are not conventional records of daily experience but more documents of the evolution of her feelings, a seed bed of ideas where she works and evolves her pieces through drawing, notes, photographs, collage and experiments of texture. Each diary represents a year in her artistic journey, a record where she digests and improves the process of her creations.
At only 28 years of age, Sissi is a dynamic force.
Her awards include:
In 2002 the Primo premio Premio Querini Stampalia-Furla per l’Arte, from the Foundazione Querini of Stampalia, Venezia. In 2003, the Primo premio XVIII Premio Alinovi a cura di R. Barilli, R. Daolio, D’Auregli of the GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna. In 2005 Premio New York, Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York.
Previous Solo Shows include:
In 2001 “Aerea” at MoCa Miami In 2003 “Interstice/Double Impact,” doppia personale Sissi/Ian Kaier, curated by A. Demeester, Amsterdam In 2004 “Nidi,” curated P.L. Tazzi, MACRO Gallery, Rome
Nature is the second in a new series of exhibitions recently launched by the Chelsea Art Museum under the title, INSIGHT. These short-run exhibitions will be devoted to cutting edge young artists who have not yet enjoyed a solo showing of their work in a New York City museum.
Sissi’s show at the Chelsea Art Museum was made possible with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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