I’ve a loopy,
loopy love of issues.
I like pliers,
and scissors.
I really like
cups,
rings,
and bowls —
to not converse, in fact,
of hats.
I really like
all issues,
not simply
the grandest, additionally
the
infinitely
small —
thimbles,
spurs,
plates,
and flower vases.
[. . .]
O irrevocable
river
of issues:
nobody can say
that I cherished solely
fish,
or the vegetation of the jungle and the sphere,
that I cherished
solely
these issues that leap and climb, want, and survive.
It’s not true:
many issues conspired
to inform me the entire story.
Not solely did they contact me,
or my hand touched them:
they have been
so shut
that they have been a component
of my being,
they have been so alive with me
that they lived half my life
and can die half my loss of life.
—Pablo Neruda, Ode to Issues
The exhibition—which takes its title from Pablo Neruda’s poem of the identical identify—highlights the significance of the objects that encompass us and the revolutionary risk of imagining and re-imagining them in area, in relation to our our bodies and our emotions.
The venture, curated by Sarah Cosulich, reunites a number of twenty-five artistic endeavors and design (amongst them the Editions, realised in ceramics by Mutina) from the gathering of Massimo Orsini. By work, pictures and sculptures by eighteen artists and designers, the exhibition establishes a dialogue amongst several types of nonetheless lifes, instructed, constructed, impressed or derived: vases, bottles and glasses replicate, echo and multiply within the area, as in a fluid and seeming mirroring recreation. The lifetime of issues—a necessary supply of inspiration for Mutina’s ceramic work and a major topic of the gathering—turns into an impulse for an change with out hierarchies which takes the form of a big, all-encompassing composition. As in Neruda’s poem, the “inanimate” comes alive, and objects change into figures on stage which, of their bi-dimensionality and tridimensionality, recommend stratified areas and narrations.
Ode to Issues celebrates the significance of the on a regular basis, highlighting the varied approaches by means of which frequent objects are interpreted. Language, type, existential metaphor, performance, ironic reference, phenomenological examine, intimate and subjective illustration, a pretext to check the bounds of portray: within the exhibition, photos and issues uncover a fancy panorama of human needs, fears and great thing about the extraordinary. The objects reveal themselves within the magnificence of type and within the semantic complexities of their constructions, in a relentless brief circuit between modernism, illusionism, vanitas and seduction.
Introduced on the event of Mutina’s twentieth anniversary, Ode to Issues can also be a celebration of the three souls of the corporate. The exhibition venture is ready up, in reality, as a dialogue amongst artwork, design and ceramics, giving strategy to a visible and conceptual narration which displays the id and imaginative and prescient of the model. The works within the present thus change into a homage to the inventive path of Mutina, that, previously twenty years, has collaborated with essentially the most important modern designers to rejoice the essence of ceramics.
Artists and Designers within the Exhibition:
Ronan Bouroullec, John Currin, Filippo de Pisis, Peter Dreher, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Luigi Ghirri,
Damien Hirst, Georges Jouve, Ingeborg Lundin, Aimée Moreau, Fischli/Weiss, Ed Ruscha, Ettore Sottsass, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Goran Trbuljak, and Franco Vimercati.
at Spazio Mutina Fiorano, Modena
till August 8, 2025
