An exhibition challenge conceived as a dialogue between the practices of Sara Ravelli and Melanie Ebenhoch, in response to the embroidered work Torna La Dea al Suo Tempio (1944) by Maria Morino Savinio. The primary group present in Tuscany that includes artists Melanie Ebenhoch and Sara Ravelli marks the continuation of Ondo’s exhibition program, increasing its analysis via collaborations with each worldwide and Twentieth-century artists. On the event of the opening, Ondo Agenda No. 2 might be obtainable, that includes textual contributions by Kasia Fudakowski and Ruggero Savinio. The works might be on view from March 8th to Might 4th, 2025, at Ondo.
Maria Morino Savinio’s manufacturing, deeply rooted in a home and intimate universe, symbolically combines with the analysis of Ravelli and Ebenhoch, making a three-voice dialogue inside Ondo’s areas. The works, created particularly for the exhibition—Merry-go-round (2025), a transferring sculpture that includes a crow, initially a part of a carnival float, endlessly circling with a torch wedged in its beak, and Nonetheless life with flies (2025), a big nonetheless life subverting Flemish custom via the sudden presence of cherub-insects and volumes seemingly rising from the canvas—evoke metamorphosis and correspondences between human and animal attributes. This dimension of transformation can be linked to the owl in Torna La Dea al Suo Tempio (1944), Maria Morino Savinio’s embroidery on uncooked canvas, which reproduces the iconography of her husband’s eponymous portray.
The settings of “Dial Dialogue Dial” reference theatrical scenography, the place props, evocative methods, and supplies contribute to establishing complicated bodily and psychological architectures. Via reversals, contrasts, and sudden components, the three tales, three protagonists, and three settings intertwine like threads on this narrative tapestry, the place the works current themselves at occasions as caricatures with an obvious ethical undertone, at occasions as revisited myths, and at occasions as daring iconographic assemblages. Areas teetering between inside and exterior merge via sudden twists, the place the cinematic stress of home scenes dissolves into symbolic and spatial subversions, whereas theatrical gravitas alternates with irreverent irony.
Imagined dialogues, silent conversations, and phone wires not solely join the exhibited works but additionally permeate the very topics, serving to to outline an intimate house during which to recall and rewrite private narratives. “Dial Dialogue Dial” originates from the invention of the historical past and work of Maria Morino Savinio, which we’ve got chosen to weave along with these of Sara Ravelli and Melanie Ebenhoch in a single narrative, to recount the invisible threads that unite the works of those three artists throughout generations and languages.
With deep disappointment, we categorical our condolences for the latest passing of Ruggero Savinio, famend artist and son of Maria Morino Savinio. With out his invaluable assist, together with that of his spouse Annelisa Alleva, this exhibition wouldn’t have been doable. His inventive and cultural legacy will proceed to encourage us and reside on via his works.
