HOMEMADE

Dates: July 9 - September 7, 2020

Location: Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY

From July 9 through September 7, 2020, Magazzino presents Homemade, a special exhibition of new work created by eight New York-based Italian artists—including Alessandro Teoldi, Andrea Mastrovito, Beatrice Scaccia, Danilo Correale, Davide Balliano, Francesco Simeti, Luisa Rabbia, and Maria D. Rapicavoli—during the global quarantine. Originally launched as part of the Magazzino da Casa’s digital program, Homemade culminates with an in-person exhibition of the final artworks created over the project’s two-month duration, which will open to the public on July 10, 2020.

Curated by Director Vittorio Calabrese with Chiara Mannarino, the approximately 30 works on view demonstrate how participating artists pushed their practice during this period, using new methods and materials, and interrogating new issues—from concrete casts that explore polarized concepts, such as connection and separation, to large-scale painting that investigates cosmic natures. The exhibition presents these works alongside a selection of previous projects by the artists to shed light on their broader creative practices. Taken together, Homemade serves as a testament to the power and resilience of art and its ability to connect us all.

Sources: https://www.magazzino.art/homemade

Maria D. Rapicavoli, in her first week of shelter-in-place, came across a shattered storefront; the piles of the blue-green window glass entranced her, as they were evidence of an unfamiliar neighborhood drama and human interaction. She tried to save the remnants to be repurposed for her Homemade project, but abandoned them for fear of bringing a foreign contaminant inside. However, once indoors, she broke several wine glasses; each accident reminded her of the broken window. She staged photographs with these new shards of glass and continued to write her reflections down. In the final weeks of Homemade, Rapicavoli returned to the broken storefront and recreated the thousands of glass shards that she encountered there out of porcelain. Her rigorous and time-consuming process allowed her to meditate on her own experience of having to reconstruct and reimagine her current reality in this unprecedented moment. Through hours of meticulous molding and modeling of individual clay pieces that occupied every inch of her apartment, Rapicavoli returned to where her project first began, indicating that, as Gabriel García Márquez notes in One Hundred Years of Solitude, time does not pass; rather, it turns in a circle.

More information on MDR’s project : https://www.magazzino.art/blog/maria-d-rapicavoli