Remo Salvadori 'At the Still Point of the Turning World', at Church of San GIacomo in Forlì

At 5 p.m. on Saturday 18 June, At the Still Point of the Turning World – a project with a number of works by #remosalvadori – will open in the church of San Giacomo in Forlì. The #event creates a dialogue between the great Piero della Francesca: Exploring a Legend exhibition currently on show at the Musei San Domenico and an artist of our own times. It suggests that Piero’s light shines far beyond the period shown in the exhibition, all the way through to the present.
The identity of present-day art in Italy also has its roots in a link with the Renaissance, not so much in the form of direct references or quotations, but rather as the inevitable survival of a Neoplatonic and geometricising dimension. A sort of metaphysical line that runs right through the twentieth century, all the way to some of the most recent artistic enquiry.

The choice for this #event has fallen upon #remosalvadori, one of the most prominent Italian artists of his generation. He came to the fore in the art world at the turn of the seventies and eighties, and in the eighties he developed an artistic language based on sculpture, installation and site-specific works that ran counter to a widespread return to painting in that decade. With hindsight, his work can be seen to have been a meeting point between the experience of #arte Povera and the poetic vision of the later generations.

The #event, which is to be considered as the first in what may become an annual series, is also designed to redefine one of the possible functions of the church of San Giacomo as a space for #contemporaryart, with a series of works that redirect visitors’ eyes around the place they are in.
During the last few days of the Piero della Francesca exhibition, the public will thus be able to go from the halls of San Domenico to see Salvadori’s works in San Giacomo. Here the artist conveys his artistic practice and experience in an active relationship with the architectural space, projecting his vision and reflections on the present and future of art.

At the Still Point of the Turning World is not an exhibition. Rather, it is an extended dialogue – which will unravel from June all the way through to September 2016 – between the artist and the architecture of San Giacomo. It is a long association between the body of the work and that of the building it is in, where emblematic examples of Salvadori’s artistic vision will be on show.
Salvadori’s works in San Giacomo bring about and nurture an idea of the vitality of the work, and of the work as a place of experience and a point where energy concentrates, in a dynamic, intimate exchange with the viewer. The works interact with each other and with the architecture from different but potentially complementary positions. Over the months, they will renew their relationship with the space by means of movements, adjustments and new positionings, accompanying the events planned for inside the building, which include concerts, conferences and a play.

At the Still Point of the Turning World is also an experience that leads us into Salvadori’s art not just through his works but also through actions, meetings and conversations that will be held as the project unfolds.
At 5 p.m. on Saturday 18 June in front of the church of San Giacomo, the public will be able to watch the artist create Continuo Infinito Presente, a process in which a steel ring is constructed illustrating the transition from a linear cable to a circumference, where beginning and end are cancelled out. The action requires the participation of seven people and lasts about an hour and a half. The flautist Angelo di Gregorio will play compositions by Giacinto Scelsi – before the start of the work and at the end – in the nave of San Giacomo, when the work will find a home, resonating with the space and with the other works.

Remo Salvadori lives in Milan and Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, where he was born in 1947.
He has taken part in major international #contemporaryart exhibitions, such as Documenta in Kassel (1982 and 1992) and a number of editions of the Venice Biennale (1982, 1986 and 1993). He has shown his works in leading museums in Italy and around the world, as well as at historical and archaeological sites and in prestigious public spaces (Piazza San Giovanni in Florence, the Archaeological Park in Ostia Antica, and the Archaeological Park in Istanbul).
His works have been studied on many occasions by some of the greatest Italian art critics and curators, including Germano Celant, Bruno Corà, Pier Luigi Tazzi and Adachiara Zevi.

Data sheet:

Remo Salvadori
At the Still Point of the Turning World

curated by Cristina Ambrosini and Davide Ferri

church of San Giacomo, Forlì
19 June – 18 September 2016

Opening: Saturday, 18 June 2016
5 p.m., Piazza Guido da Montefeltro (in front of the church of San Giacomo)
Creation of a work, Continuo Infinito Presente (Continuous Infinite Present) in the presence of the public
6.30 p.m., unveiling of the works in the church of San Giacomo

exhibition venue:
church of San Giacomo
Piazza Guido da Montefeltro, 47121 Forlì

opening hours:
(until 26 June inclusive)
Tuesday to Friday: 9.30 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, 9.30 a.m.-8 p.m.
From 28 June to 18 September: Tuesday to Sunday, 9.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
(Closed Mondays and 2, 3, 9, 10 July, and 15 August)

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