From Friday 30 December 2021 to Sunday 23 January 2022 | PAGGERIA ART & TOURISM | Sassuolo (MO)
At the prestigious civic rooms of the Paggeria Arte Gallery, recently transformed into Pageria Arte & Turismo, located in the square of the Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, the personal exhibition of Cristina Iotti entitled: the shadow of the body will be held from 30 December to 23 January 2022.
The artist will present a series of previously unpublished drawings, created over the last two years specifically for this exhibition.
Inauguration Thursday 30 December from 5pm
The germ of this exhibition – writes the artist – was born in December 2019 after having agreed with the Municipality on a personal exhibition originally scheduled for December 2020. I wanted to create a new and at the same time intimate project; I was looking for a heartfelt theme that deeply belonged to me .
One morning, during my daily visit to my parents, I was surprised to look at their unmade beds with different eyes. I began to study them and perceive a strong evocative and symbolic power in those folds which I then tried to convey through my drawings. These beds, which until a few minutes earlier had welcomed the bodies of my parents in their tormented sleep, with their movements during the night, had formed these folds, which had dramatically and forcefully become the protagonists of this new series of works of mine.(… )
... with sensitivity and mastery – writes Anita Peterle in the presentation text – she was able to immortalise, through chiaroscuro executed with patience and devotion, these sweaty and tormented shadows of her parents. The sheets, like shrouds, take the shape of every movement suffered, when getting up is torture after a night spent in pain in the limbs, with no future left.
Today all these niches hang around us like icons of a journey, of a diary, in which hope and experience fill the treasure chest of our memory.Cristina has not only suspended shadows, but living presences which, through her pencils, have taken up a different I walk, in each of his works we feel the breath and the warmth (…)… “
Biographical notes: Cristina Iotti graduated in 1987 in Illustration from the Institute's three-year higher course
European Design Institute (IED) in Milan. Since 2002 he has dedicated himself exclusively to painting and
to drawing and since then he has regularly exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
He has received numerous awards and prizes in various national and international competitions.
In 2007 she was the winner in the graphics section of the "ART Award “ announced to the magazine ART
Cairo Publisher and the Special Prize Faber-Castell and, for the first time in the history of the award,
was also awarded the Gold Plate in the 2008 edition. He collaborated for several years with the
Costa Crociere and numerous of his works can be found on the Costa Luminosa and Costa Deliziosa ships,
Costa Fascinosa and Costa Diadema. For some years he has been collaborating with the Tecnografica italian wallcoverings
for the creation of wallpapers signed with your own designs. He lives and works in Sassuolo (MO).
Inauguration Thursday 30 December from 5pm
Entrance to the Gallery permitted according to current Covid regulations
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10.30am – 12.30pm | 4.00pm – 7.00pm
Extraordinary openings Friday 31 December 2021 and Thursday 6 January 2022: 4.00 pm – 7.00 pm
or by appointment.
PAGGERIA ART & TOURISM | Piazzale della Rosa | Sassuolo (MO)
With the patronage of the Municipality of Sassuolo
For information: info@cristinaiotti.it www.cristinaiotti.it tel.0536804833 cultura@comune.sassuolo.mo.it www.facebook.com/iotticristina
