The fourth appointment of Macro Wall:Eighties are back! focuses on sculptor Vittorio Corsini (Cecina, Livorno, 1956). Vittorio Corsini’s work stems from a meditation on living space, which is analyzed considering its most intimate conceptual and poetic features, through a series of works in different materials, from rope to glass, from iron to plastic.
The two works featured in MACRO reflect a research that combines sculpture and drawing under the sign of urban landscape, the latter interpreted by the artist as an inventory of symbolic and archetypical shapes and considered at the same time in a cartographic and conceptual sense.
The work Albero (1991) records the first results of Corsini’s artistic research. Belonging to the Sargentini collection, it was presented for the first time in an exhibition at the Attico Gallery in Rome and represented in 2009 within the exhibition “Arte Natura/Natura Arte” at Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia. It consists in the silhouette of a tree made of rope and anchored to the wall by steel brackets, and with its essentiality it recalls the sinopias of medieval frescos.
Paesaggio (2010) is a big drawing representing a stylized landscape, where the artist has affixed a series of proper names that correspond to the dwellings located on the Tuscan territory that inspired the work of art.
The works "Albero" and "Paesaggio", respectively introduced by Lorenzo Bruni and Alberto Mugnaini, compose a MACROwall, taking up a whole wall of a room of the museum, to document the stylistic evolution of Vittorio Corsini’s research.
The project MACROwall: Eighties are Back! aims to reinterpret Italian art of the Eighties thorough a cycle of exhibitions featuring 10 artists whose different researches have characterized the production of the decade. Each artist is invited to display two of his most representative works on the same wall, one “historical” one and another that is more recent, in order to allow the public to rediscover the vitality of art forms in the last years. The works are accompanied by critical reviews coming from two different generations: the younger art critic will interpret the “historical” work and vice versa.
Vittorio Corsini was born in Cecina (Livorno) in 1956. He currently lives and works between Florence and Milan. People are his favourite material and that’s why he likes being defined a sculptor. His projects focus on the organization of space considered on a social basis, so that the works become an integral part of the human environment rather than of the physical one. His installations reinvent the perception of places and directly involve the people who live there, turning them into active protagonists of the works. This modus operandi is evident in public works such as Parma 33# (2009), for the homonymous street in Turin, Codice rosso (2008) for the city of Milan and in those works that the artist calls “event-works”, based on the participation of visitors, where art becomes an opportunity to share the deepest states of being. Among his recent solo exhibitions, we must cite "Esercizio 1" at Corsoveneziaotto Gallery in Milan, "Orange mood " for the Alessandro Bagnai Gallery in Florence in 2009, “Walkabout”' for Santa Maria della Vita Church in Bologna in 2008, “GOD Save THE PEOPLE” for the former Church of Saint Matthew in Lucca and the Claudio Poleschi arte contemporanea Gallery in 2007, “ALLELUJA” at Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena in 2002. Among the numerous collective exhibitions he took part in, we can mention: "Lo spazio del sacro" at the Galleria Civica in Modena, "La scultura del XXI secolo" hosted by the Fondazione Pomodoro in Milan, "Arte Natura/Natura Arte" at Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia in 2009, “ANNI LUNARI” at the Galleria l’Attico in Rome in 2007, “Continuità. Arte in Toscana, 1990/2000” hosted by the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato in 2002.