Proserpina #A_S4 , at Arte Sella, a new installation

by artist Quayola

[ Ufficio Stampa della Provincia autonoma di Trento]

Since 6 October Arte Sella has been hosting Proserpina #A_S4 at the Malga Costa exhibition area, a series of four large Carrara marble sculptures conceived site-specifically by artist Quayola.

The same artist presented here the video installation "Jardins d'Été" in 2020, a visual homage to the brushstrokes of Claude Monet.
The four Proserpina #A_S4 sculptures, created for Arte Sella, consist of algorithmic variations on Gian Lorenzo Bernini's (1621-1622) celebrated Baroque masterpiece The Rape of Proserpina; placed near the park's theater, the sculptures remain unfinished, with the intention of documenting the logic and aesthetics of the process of creation, the true subject of the work.

As the artist states:

I try to investigate the paradigms of the old and the new, the real and the artificial. My work often analyzes how we look at art masterpieces, and explores the tension between direct experience and the viewpoint mediated by technology.

Ufficio Stampa della Provincia autonoma di Trento

03/10/2024

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Arte Sella

Arte Sella is an international outdoor exhibition of contemporary art set up in 1986 in the fields and woods of the Val di Sella.
Arte Sella is both a qualified exhibition of artistic works and, most importantly, an ongoing creative process in which art works can be actually followed as they grow and evolve. The artists are called upon to express a respectful relationship with nature and treat it as a source of inspiration.

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