Alice Cattaneo
Affioramenti
Cos’è poi una valle se non paesaggio, fiumi, pietre? le pietre qui, non sono solo testimoni del passaggio di ere geologiche sulla materia, ma anche del passaggio di civiltà scomparse, come ci ricordano le statue stele che riaffiorano ancora oggi in vari punti della valle.
Alice Cattaneo, Affioramenti, 2021, Castello Spinola, Campo Ligure (GE), Liguria. Ph. Nuvola Ravera
For Alice Cattaneo (Milan, 1976) the tension or relaxation determined by the materials that she uses for her sculptures and installations are fundamental: everyone has their own parameters of attraction and repulsion that combine and fit together. She wants to go back to the origins of making sculpture to get to the point where sculpture becomes just a thought. In 2017, selected by the Museo del Novecento in Milan, she won the Level 0 award at Art Verona. In 2019, she inaugurated the exhibition project Tra-secolare at the Archaeological Museum of Acqui Terme and in 2008, she exhibited at the MADRE Museum in Naples.
Campo Ligure is a village of 2,951 inhabitants located in the Stura valley, in the province of Genoa, which is 25 km away, in Liguria. One of the Borghi Più Belli d’Italia since 2011, it is globally recognized as the National Center of Filigree, a goldsmith’s art resulting from great craftsmanship, with a museum dedicated to the collections from Europe, Asia and Africa and Latin America, in the historic Palazzo di Giustizia. This place is linked to the history of the seventeenth-century painter Bernardo Strozzi, author of the «Martyrdom of St. Lucia» in the Parish Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. The Spinola Castle with its majestic tower 22 meters high, is externally in the shape of a hexagon: still perfectly preserved, it dates back to around the 12th-13th century.