Stretch Sculpture

Sissi

Usually, the sculptural objects of the artist from Bologna who works under the pseudonym 'Sissi' are preceded by a performative aspect. The sculptures are left over as shed skin or peels of their active presence.

Nidi (Nester), 2004
Rattan wickerwork and painted paper towels, variable formats. Installation in the studio of the artist in the Collegio Venturoli, Bologna (photo: Ela Bialkowska)

The rampantly growing wickerwork of the Nidi (nests) that curls up the stairs of the Kunsthaus Meran foregoes the preceding act. In this case, the artist ascribes the forces the living beings that normally settle in the nests actually have to the objects themselves. It is the nests - woven of rattan and tinted paper towels - that fledge; they are no longer abandoned dwellings or waiting rooms for the offspring, but 'real-life' organisms. Suddenly, the associations projected onto the objects attain a life of their own, so the 'animated' sculptures seem to grow beyond themselves in an impression of unpredictable anarchy, as seedlings of a displacement, as topological surrealisms of their own corporeality.

Nido (Nest) 2004 Rattan wickerwork and painted paper towels ca. 400 x 200 x 60 cm (Photo: Ela Bialkowska), Detail