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Saturday December 7, 2019
The Museum of Ceramics in Savona and the MuDA of Albissola Marina present the donation of the work Eye Verbal Motor from the artist Silvia Celeste Calcagno
- 16.30, Palazzo Gavotti Conference Room, Piazza Chabrol 1, Savona. A visit to the opera’s installation at the Ceramic Museum will follow.
- 18.30, MuDA, Via dell’Oratorio 2, Albissola Marina. A visit to the staging of another work from the same project Eye Verbal Motor will follow.
Free entry. Due to the limited number of places available, please book at 340 9363059 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Eye Verbal Motor is an art work by Silvia Celeste Calcagno from 2019, that combines photography and ceramics. The protagonist of this art work is the artist herself who uses her face and her body to communicate universal themes such as life, pain, death and rebirth. Eye Verbal Motor comes from an autobiographical episode. Trying to sublimate the pain of a loss, the artist began to do research about coma, discovering the Glasgow Coma Scale, the neurological assessment scale used to track the clinical evolution of the coma status of a patient by observing his ocular, verbal and motor activity. Hence the title Eye Verbal Motor.
Photography becomes matter
To make the work, the initial photographic matrix were transferred to clay plates (stoneware) on which the artist intervened pictorially before baking them at high temperature. Obsessively repeated, the image of the face of the artist is clearly visible in the first pieces while in the latter it is almost invisible, while in the latter it is almost invisible, reaching a partial abstraction.
Through art, the external images of the body are transfigured and focus all the attention on the inner dimension of man and his pain.
Lady Vendetta
For the realization of this work Silvia Celeste Calcagno was inspired by cinema. Eye Verbal Motor recalls the poster and plot of the film Lady Vendetta from Park Chan-Wook. Wrongfully accused of murder, the protagonist tries in vain to get even with the person who accused her. The desire for revenge, continued throughout the course of the movie, but it was overcome by the pursue of a final pacification
Silvia Celeste Calcagno
Silvia Celeste Calcagno was born in Genoa in 1974. In 2015 she became the first Italian woman to win the Faenza Prize, 59° edition. In 2017, during the 5th Biennale of Contemporary Mosaic in Ravenna, in collaboration with MIC Faenza, inaugurated the solo exhibition Il Pasto Bianco curated by Davide Caroli. The exhibited work became part of the permanent collection of the historic Biblioteca Classense . In 2019 she won the third edition of the Premio L'Arte che Accadrà, curated by Valentina Ciarallo, with the work Just Lily, now set up in the headquarters of the HDRA Group at Palazzo Fiano, Roma. Among other artists that took care of her work: Luca Beatrice, Francesca Bogliolo, Luca Bochicchio, Ilaria Bonacossa, Alessandra Gagliano Candela, Silvia Campese, Davide Caroli, Claudia Casali, Valentina Ciarallo, Maria Teresa Ferrari,
Flaminio Gualdoni, Lisa Hockemeyer, Daniela Lotta, Angela Madesani, Michele Mari, Maurizio Tarantino, Matteo Zauli.
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