Il Danno (2018) by Silvia GiambroneLa Galleria Nazionale
Butchery
I have no more words of love
In my language.
That’s why I want yours.
Marble memories your veins on the counter
– You are not a danger to me –
Will be written on your tombstone.
Silvia Giambrone
Il Danno (2018) by Silvia GiambroneLa Galleria Nazionale
The woman’s body is not only the favorite battlefield of state and church, but also of the modern consumer society, patriarchal and liberal, which has always wanted to tame the image of the female body in a canon of aesthetic perfection that is difficult to embody and painfully frustrating.
This work makes us reflect on the profound separation that exists between the real woman and the consumerist projection of the ideal woman, a daily contradiction that appears quite evident in Italy, a factor perhaps largely due to the media hegemony of junk television.
Elegie Duinesi n.1 #3 (2016) by Silvia GiambroneLa Galleria Nazionale
The second work is a small sculpture entitled Duino Elegies n. 1, inspired by the homonymous poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. It is composed of an amethyst geode and a clay part which, unlike the first, allows to leave a mark on matter, letting you activate a visceral connection with it.
That mark is a bite. That clay looks like flesh. Naturally, the bite could only be left on a soft part such as clay, in fact the geode by its very nature and composition does not allow a mark like this to be left on it.
Elegie Duinesi n.1 #2 (2016) by Silvia GiambroneLa Galleria Nazionale
But it is human nature to push the limits of what is possible and try to be recognized even in extreme conditions. And this is precisely the sublime aspect of human nature, the one it wants to transcend, which does not stop against the limits of physics.
Elegie Duinesi n.1 #3 (2016) by Silvia GiambroneLa Galleria Nazionale
"Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror”, Rainer Maria Rilke said. Words able to frame the sublime once and for all, both in literature and history.
Paola Ugolini
Silvia Giambrone e Paola Ugolini