Micol Assaël: Converting Words

Sprovieri is delighted to present Converting Words, the first solo show at the gallery of the Italian artist Micol Assaël.

 

Converting Words will feature four recent sculptures that present key elements of Assaël’s practice. Her extensive research investigates natural and physical phenomena and forces, the interaction of ordinary materials and common objects with their surroundings and the human being and his sensorial perception. 

 

The final result is an harmonic and balanced asymmetry of elements chosen for their communicative and connective physical properties: wood, glass, old phones, floor planks, beams, ceramic insulators for high-voltage lines. 

 

In 意見 iken (opinion), opposing weights in balance with each other create a dynamic relation of forces referring to caution and moderation. In 学名 kumambaci (bee) the asymmetry is played by a support bolt and a small black marble wedge which fixes the anomalies, making them dynamic in relation to the viewer.

 

A pallet surmounted by a wood composition including aluminium and wax elements resembling the model of a city crossed by a river, forsees a Rome of the future, an unheartly vision of the city subject to hidden forces and inevitably affected by climatic change. 

 

Each sculpture is as radical as is poetic: on an old window leaning against the wall appears the writing ‘reality is not contemporary’, traced in the dust that over time accumulated on the glass. The words glow when the window is traversed by light. The concreteness of the statement materialises on a fragile, transparent surface through ephemeral elements such as light and dust.