Milano: Art – Museo del Novecento -
Fabio Viale. Fabio Viale’s show in the
Manica Lunga of the Museo del Novecento near Piazza del Duomo, open until
September 30. In the exhibition he introduces two new sculptures; Thank
You and Goodbye, above, he transformed two ordinary
paper bags, destined for the trash heap, into a monumental, totemic sculpture
carved from crystalline Carrara marble. This piece was awarded first prize by
the jury of the 2012 Henraux Foundaton Award, and Stargate, two plastic crates. Fabio Viale is an artist who opts for complete
physical involvement with his art. He works exclusively in marble, a material
that, by its nature, demands a certain physique du rôle. He also conceives some
of his sculptures as performance pieces that require him to enact Herculean
physical feats.
Museo del
Novecento - Fabio Viale - The Boat. In
one of his most astonishing performances, Viale navigated, in bodies of water
from the Tiber River in Rome to a pond in Gorky Park, Moscow, a 1,300 lbs. (600
Kg) boat completely carved out of marble, Ahgalla,
2002, a substance not normally known for its buoyancy.
Museo del
Novecento - Fabio Viale. – The Tire.
All sculptures of Fabio Viale impress for their technical mastery, they enchant
for the sensual beauty of their surfaces while their shapes, inspired to
ordinary objects, subvert our usual way of looking at marble sculptures with
surprising irony. On
another occasion, he rolled a massive marble tire, weighing 2,000 lbs. (1 ton),
through the streets of Turin, Opera Rotas,
2005.