Avellino, "Anatomy of the void" at the Irpino Museum

The ''Anatomy of the Void'' exhibition opens on Friday 7 June at 6.00 pm at the Irpino Museum - Bourbon Prison Monumental Complex.

Cristina Cianci's solo exhibition presents itself as a broad and complex productive arc in which the artist circumscribes the void in a profound relationship between her existence and the manipulation of matter.

Cristina Cianci moves in a very narrow space of research: between visible and invisible, in the deep excavation of loss, where the pain of the world and ours meet together with the remains.

The exhibition is curated by Michelangelo Giovinale who reconstructs an overall picture from the beginning, when the artist's interest was struck by the dominant character of ancient amphorae, the dark side and the intrinsic and immanent strength of their contents.

The practice of art merges with the artist's life, marking the seasons of his twenty-year research, in that unfathomable limit that separates the artist from the woman.

Grandi Madri, Mater materia and Containere are the conceptual threads that summarize her work.

In filigree, going up perimeters and cavities, necks and handles, silent bellies, the author allows us to glimpse a profile of a woman with a shy and reserved character, which impresses
distinctly in that essential and bare side of her works which repudiate, from the very beginning, useless aesthetic liturgies.

Cristina Cianci restores the profound meaning of her definition of art: circumscribing the void, giving shape to everything that is not a shape, with that which has no limit, no established barrier. Like her mother's unconditional love.

Cristina Cianci graduated in 2004 from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples in Pictorial Decoration; in 2005 she specialized in Graphics at the same Academy.

In 2003, 2005 and 2006 she attended engraving courses held at the National Institute for Graphics in Rome. In 2004 she was a finalist in the “National Arts Award”, organized by the M.I.U.R. at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome with the work "l'Albero", 2003.
Her works are present in some public and private collections.

The exhibition will be open to visitors until 27 July 2024.