Stil Life

In the rubble of the old Matarazzo Hospital, the artist found materials destined to disappear in the rennovations and submitted them to his poetic gaze in order to create compositions which he then stocked with real butterflies brought over from France. These unlikely exhibits—scraps of fencing, netting, broken plaster, dried leaves, lumps of concrete with metal formwork still attached—take on a whole new dimension, offering the observer a gentle, seductive collage. The butterflies seem poised to take flight and disappear through the window, which is left open at all times. Franck Scurti is a conceptual artist whose main sources of inspiration are everyday reality and the international news, which he expresses through forms produced by the consumer markets and urbanisation.