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Contemporary Sculpture Art Exhibition

PAX_22

Roberta Morzetti
Curated by Velia Littera
July 15th-30th, 2022
Tuscania, Church of Sant’Agostino

Biennale of Viterbo Contemporary Art

Seventh International Exhibition
"Art on the edge of Bioethics"
From June to October 2022
Curated by Laura Lucibello

With the patronage of the Municipality of Tuscania and the Dioceses of Viterbo.

“The sleep of reason generates monsters” (quote by Francisco Goya)

Roberta Morzetti takes the cue from this quote written by Francisco Goya to recreate, through her sculptures, a contemporary artistic narration of human fragility that becomes STRENGTH.

By using reason incorrectly, it can actually create monsters but her sculptural characters, set up inside a sacred venue, want to show that the figure of the being aspires to rise and find its "I". The oneiric vision that belongs to this artist, combined with reason, gives form to secular miracles, necessary to live, not only in harmony with oneself, but to become an integral and founding part of a new community. The inner awakening conveys a collective need to reach harmony and peace.

The curator of the exhibition, Velia Littera, also the director of Pavart gallery in Rome, who has been following Morzetti in her artistic career since years, took the opportunity of the Viterbo Biennale to present a solo exhibition of the Tuscanese sculptress in a wonderful place, the church of Sant’Agostino in Tuscania. A tribute to her hometown that already counts many well-known artists such as Giuseppe Cesetti, Gianni Asdrubali, Kokocinski Bonaria, Ennio De Santis, Gino Bernardini and finally Massimo Lippi, just to name a few.

Roberta Morzetti is a contemporary artist born in Tarquinia in 1979, graduated with honour at the Academy of Fine Arts in Viterbo. After a brief experience in the world of fashion and theatre, she has devoted herself exclusively to sculpture for about ten years. She lives and works in Tuscania.

As the art historian, Greta Alberta Tirloni describes her art:

Morzetti is an artist who manages to present the body with evidence, originality, authenticity and fullness, in its simple yet strong essence. In fact, she uses solid strong hard materials, such as Koons uses steel, shaping them not into objects of common knowledge but transforming them into sculptures with sinuous shapes, which veil and evoke profound meanings: her works thus show images that are almost scenarios for great music, for large symphonies.

An artist that, through her language of sculpture, tells us about our current society and time, from a point of observation and perspective of a contemporary woman, while recalling the birth rate in the country of art par excellence and the consequent influence. In fact, in her works often there may symbolisms and forms that glimpse re-elaborations of Italian art, such as the Baroque.

These and other elements therefore merge, also with the use of blowtorch fire, in references to contemporary art, and at the same time to tradition, to the sacred fire of the alchemical Athanor, with its meanings, hermetic.

For Morzetti, art thus acquires a meaning, a need that covers her entire life, starting with her own life: her works almost become her daughters, as she likes to say.

As she likes to assert, Art cannot be imprisoned in words, descriptions, terms, adverbs and adjectives, since it would end up limiting it and containing the gleams of the infinite within it. As for Klein the pure colour, the blue and the overcoming of lines and shapes, was a show of infinity or the true essence of art, for De Dominicis’ art in itself represented and had to show the overcoming of time and its limits. Also for Morzetti, Art and her material and above all immaterial sensitivity go beyond Time, thus overcoming the limits, as well as space, even time.

In Roberta Morzetti’s art works, symbols and images seem to emerge from the void, through consistent materials ... they come to life ... to speak to us about today with a contemporary message ... but at the same time they also appear as witnesses from the past, from Tradition. Like De Chirico's Muses and their sensitivity, they are there, they appear there on tables, in a theatre or a ship deck, in a modern and industrial city, but they are silent they do not speak. Only by intuition they communicate with us and let us know their contemporary message... they appear on the stage of life, as in a show, recalling the artist's work experience in the theatre.

And the material ... the hard materials she uses... speak of an appearance, from the Void that is Infinite, an appearance of significant substance also through the practice of reusing and reviving organic and industrial materials ...

With their appearing with their image with their matter ... her works offer symbols rich in meaning in today's times, through direct and non-rational knowledge, precisely by intuition!

With the participation of the artists: Grazia Maria Regalino, Fabio Ferrone Viola and Giovanni Trimani, her friends, who will exhibit one of their artworks in harmony with the location and with the concept of the exhibition.