solo exhibition


Reconstrucción en rojo Nuevas Obras
Galería Nacional, Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura
San José, Costa Rica
works / show

September 2-30, 2005
site-specific installation
curated by Rolando Castellón
show installation and critical essay in catalogue by Silvia Bandini and Esther Biancotti

press release
After her long experience in New York, another overseas solo exhibition for the Sienese artist, Franca Marini, realized this time with the participation of the Departmente of Contemporary Art, headed by Prof. E. Crispolti of the Università degli Studi di Siena.
As always, the artist looks into the meaning of her work and her relationship with the public creating exclusive works of art. A large work of art has lent its title to the exhibition, Reconstruction in red, a real installation realized on site featuring velvet paper and threads of coloured wool. These coloured threads, which remind us, among other things, of the ancient weaving traditions of the pre-Hispanic cultures, seem to be the real thread of the exhibition. They are utilized by the artist to bring together, sometimes literally sewing together, single parts, fragments that through the construction of this work re-create an original integrity; or else they unite points which are distant from each other surpassing the boundaries of the image to blend into the surrounding space. They become the protagonists of a way of doing that is not only material in nature and that aspires to be a creative gesture, the expression of a thought which is not conscious.
The supports, created by bringing together maps, allude to the fact that distance has been overcome, not only in a spatial sense but above all culturally and not merely as the outcome of a globalization that we have had to bear. The artist has taken on the very task of art which she sees as the creation of images which represent our innermost fantasy in its most authentic and profound state, as well as those irrational contents inherent to man and therefore universally perceivable and communicable.

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