REBECCA MOCCIA. ANCESTORS SYNDROME
Ancestors Syndrome is Rebecca Moccia’s first metalwork. Shaped after a geological map of Vesuvius preserved at the Archivio Russo Somma, and inspired by the story of the artist’s grandmother—who was forced to migrate and marry after the last eruption in 1944—“it is a detrital and mobile monument to our human and non-human southern mothers,” says […]
Arte Povera: Dialogues.
Arte Povera was a radical Italian art movement which attempted to create a new sculptural language through the use of humble, everyday materials. Meaning “poor art,” the term was introduced in 1967 by Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant to describe the work by these artists. In them, Celant found a shared revolutionary spirit […]