Redefining Reality: Jeong-hwa, Faustino, Gamper, and Reyes at MAXXI, Rome
- Maria Vittoria di Sabatino
- 19 gen 2016
- Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Curated by Hou Hanru and Anne Palopoli, the group show Transformers opened November 11, 2015, (until March 28, 2016) at MAXXI (Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome). It displays works and projects by Choi Jeong-hwa, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Martino Gamper, and Pedro Reyes: four transformers that are at once artists, designers, and social activists.
Choi Jeong-Hwa, Golden Lotus, 2015. .Photo ©Musacchio & Ianniello. Courtesy of the museum.
The exhibition is rooted in the idea that the reality we live in is changing, due to the action of technology; here, not only the world is mutating, but also the way we define ourselves as human beings. The transformers are challenging and contrasting this issue, by easing the dialogue among the creative practices, finally leading us to embrace humanity, self-organization, social engagement, and ecological sustainability. As a matter of fact, they take advantage of technology and the climate of change in order to stimulate a response to urgent issues of our time, such as economic crisis and immigration; they get inside the flow and try to direct it. The exhibition path twists through the works of the four artists, simultaneously favoring the communication among the installations and with the location.
Choi Jeong-Hwa, Hubble Bubble, 2015. Photo ©Musacchio & Ianniello. Courtesy of the museum.
A first glimpse of the exhibition, Chai Jeong-Hwa’s astonishing Golden Lotus, welcomes the visitor at the museum entrance: the giant installation inflates and deflates, reproducing the act of breathing and stimulating contemplation. Inside Gallery 3, Post-Forma, a special collection of recycled chairs with fabric and blown glass inserts, seems to invite the visitor to seat and take some time to acclimate within the show. While crossing Jeong-Hwa’s forest of hanging green plastic containers – Hubble Bubble, the metallic symphony of Pedro Reyes’ Disarm approaches. At the same time intriguing and monumental, each work of art easily draws attention on a social issue.
Pedro Reyes, Disarm (Mechanized), 2013. Photo ©Musacchio & Ianniello. Courtesy of the museum.
Staged together in this exhibition, these artists are no longer merely denouncing a certain situation or imagining a non-realistic resolution, but they are collaborating and inciting a real transformation of today’s reality. “The creators” Hanru states “are
extraordinary dreamers; they can transform the daily into the fantastic and vice versa”, thus creating new realities and stimulating us to fully live the human experience.
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