Sissi

EVERTING ANATOMY

16 January - 9 February 2023 | Artist talk (via zoom) 4pm 24 January

the WORK

The language of Sissi's poetics comes from an alchemy of words originated from the context of scientific research mixed with those of interiority and personal experience.
The starting point is the reflection on the body, which through a comparison with the encyclopaedic model reinterprets the anatomy as metaphor of the existence.From the performance and the creative gesture emerges a material sign that takes the form of sculptures, installations, sculpture dresses, drawings, photographs in a continuous experimentation.
Performance has an important connecting role in her work because it explores a different access point into our mind, materials and movements to expand the way we perceive. Through site specific projects the performance creates a relationship with the environment which in my work is often identified with an idea of human body. Movements and body traces are one way to draw a distinguished vision.
In her poetic drawing practice is born inside the body and when it comes out it aligns with the outside. She prefers to draw with a continuous line to mark this relationship of continuity and the use of the ink pen allows her to draw in an introspective way, to go into details as if she was digging into a fantasy of the multilayers identities.

bio

Sissi, (Daniela Olivieri) was born in Bologna in 1977. She lives and works in Bologna. She currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

In 2022 she won Una scultura per Margherita Hack, the first woman monument of a woman of science promoted by Comune di Milano, Casa degli Artisti and Fondazione Deloitte, P.Richini, Statale University, Milan. In 2021 she did a permanent installation in the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise winner of ArteParco Price. In 2012 she won the Gotham Prize. In 2006 she was awarded a scholarship from the American Academy in Rome. In 2005 she was awarded the New York Prize of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2003 the Gam of Bologna awarded her the Alinovi Prize and she won the Furla Art Award in 2002. In 2008 she joined the residency program of the Tokyo Wonder Site - Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture and in 2004 she was artist in residence at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz.

Sissi has exhibited her works in numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including; Trasguardi, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m, Bologna, (2022); Cene, ACP - Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia (2020); Corpi e Processi - Storie di fili, CSAC Parma, (2020), Vestimenti, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna, (2020) Motivi Ossei, Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m, Bologna (2016); Instinct-Extinct, Tiziana Di Caro Gallery, Naples, (2016); Manifesto Anatomico, MAMbo and Civic Museums of Ancient Art - Bologna Museums Institution, Bologna (2015) … just to name a few.

www.sissisissi.com

@iosissi

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