Chiara Camoni. The immediate Surroundings

Nomas Foundation is pleased to present "Gli immediati dintorni (The immediate Surroundings)", a solo exhibition of works by Chiara Camoni, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni. 

The immediate Surroundings, offers the viewer the possibility to relate with works that embrace the entire career of the artist – some of which have never been exhibited before – and come close to her practice, through an in-depth investigation on a research based on shared moments, one that measures time and, sometimes, follows its unforeseen “suggestions”. 

Through a dialogue between sculpture, installations, performances, videos, photographic works and texts, the exhibition offers a perspective on Chiara Camoni’s interests, focusing on some themes that characterize her artistic enquiry, such as the stream of time, nature and its generative power, rituals, human bonds and relationships: all elements that open her work to a dimension of fortuity, recognizable in the traces that mark the materials she uses and in the way she conceives process as a necessary form of creation. 

Deriving its mode and language from the artist’s work, "Gli immediati dintorni (The immediate Surroundings)", is conceived as an exhibition in progress, adopting slowness as a time for the creation, the fruition and the reception of the works on show. The exhibition doesn’t aim to be the ending point of a production, rather act as a shared and familiar space, an open laboratory, an occasion for a more intimate exchange between the artist’s works and the viewer. 

According to this approach, the performance "La neve gialla" (2013) will be presented before the opening, as a sort of overture for the visit and a proper preparation of the space to the arrival of the audience. The performance will start at 5.30 pm. Reservation is required (please send an e-mail at info@nomasfoundation.com). 

On the occasion of the exhibition it will also be possible to attend to the workshop "Pieni di vuoti / Vuoti di Pieni", contributing to the realization of the work "Vasi" (2013-2015), an additional moment for the understanding of the artist’s practice and process. The work, that will take form during the duration of the exhibition, has already started to occupy the spaces of the Foundation. 

Chiara Camoni (Piacenza 1974) lives and works in Tuscany, on the Versilia mountains.She attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, where she graduated in 1999. One year later she became artistic director of the Istituto per la Diffusione delle Scienze Naturali of Naples and, from 2002 to 2006, she has been invited to hold some conference cycles at the didactic department of Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples). In the last years Chiara Camoni, with the artists Alessandra Andrini and Luca Bertolo, directs the MAGra (Contemporary Art Museum of Granara, Tuscany).
Solo Exhibition (selection): La ninessa e altre creature, exhibition center Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull’Arno, 2015; Del questo e del quello. Del sè e dell’altro. Come tutto., Studio LCA, Milan, 2015; La pazienza è virtù dei manufatti, Spazio A, Pistoia, 2014. 
Group Exhibitions (selection): Tutta l’Italia è silenziosa, Royal Academy of Spain, Rome 2015; Follerre & Folleroo, Arcade Fine Arts, London, 2015; To Continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome, 2014.

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