“Camille, journey into the soul” by Anna, Luisa and Rosaria Corcione
“Camille, journey into the soul“is the multidisciplinary project, curated by Anna Cuomo, with whom Anna, Luisa and Rosaria Corcione they want to return the deeper aspects of the life and work of the sculptress Camille Claudel. The show “Ca / 1000“by Luisa Corcionewinner of the 2021 Fringe festival, it begins Tuesday 2 August 2022 at 20.00 al MAD – Murate Art District of Florencein piazza delle Murate, while the visual interventions by Anna and Rosaria Corcione will be open to visitors, in the Ketty La Rocca room of MAD, from 6.30 pm on 2 August until 7.30 pm on 3 August 2022.
The dialogue between the practices of each author reconstructs in fragments the complex human and artistic path of Claudel, recognized only recently. Her emblematic experience becomes a story about marginalization and the stigma of madness in the struggle for emancipation in a context that is still male prerogative.. The collaboration between performative and visual languages is aimed at stimulating an interactive interest in the themes explored, starting from the awareness of the potential of the arts in the processes of personal, social, professional and gender acceptance.
“This project is a caress for those who have loved without end, for those who have created so much with nothing in return, for those who have carried the weight of women born in the wrong time.”Say Anna, Luisa and Rosaria Corcione. Anna points out that she “I wanted this artistic event in which my and my sisters’ work could dialogue on a common artistic level. For some time Luisa and Rosaria have been working on the figure of Camille Claude both in theater and in painting and it was interesting to join them with my visual poetry research and that this meeting took place in Florence, the city where I live“.
In the show “Ca / 1000” Luisa Corcione incorporates, on the texts of Enrico Manzo and with the interpretation of Noemi Francesca, the poetry of Paul Claudel, the letters between Camille and her lover August Rodin, the diaries rendered image and the sound carpet consisting of the synthesized melodies of Marco Vidino and the pieces composed by Peppe Voltarelli (the lighting design is by Ettore Nigro). Rosaria Corcione’s paintings on paper are Camille’s self-portraits that are torn from each representation, in the performative story of the fragmentation of the soul.
For the Murate space, Rosaria Corcione recovers each painting by recomposing the tears to get even more into the physiognomy and faces that repaint Camille as a child, artist, lover, mature woman. The torn and crumpled paper is re-spread on a canvas that recalls the medicating gauze and which incorporates the imperfections in a texture aimed at visually suggesting tactiles that start from psychological introspection. The attempt is to mend that soul with an almost maternal and at the same time self-reflecting care: medical gauze and reshape the paper. The representation of this double possibility of regeneration, the reference to the body of the artist herself, the explosion of the personality stitched up in the painting characterizes the sensitivity that becomes figuration and physical presence.
Anna Corcione’s work is linked to this poetic but detaches itself from a stylistic point of view by canceling the figuration. The series on display is Second skindesigned to describe the feeling of inappropriateness and attempts to mask discomfort on the part of those who yearn for social acceptance by concealing their true nature. The natural fiber paper, the constituent material of the works, is washed, squeezed, modeled and then made up, a way to create imperfections that recall the skin and then conceal them with make-up. The works acquire materiality with the addition of make-up that gives them solidity, and makes the leathers similar to sculpted bronze plates, in the combination of lightness and structure.
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