Visiting the artists’studio: Jesus Curia in Madrid

It is always a stunning experience to visit such an interesting studio. Thanks to Jesus to hosting us, Francesca, Bianca and Patrick

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iSculpture Gallery at Belmond Castello di Casole

We are proud to announce the opening of our third venue. Come to visit us in the wonderful setting of Belmond Castello di Casole where a wonderful selection of our art, an elegant atmosphere, wonderful views and surroundings will delight your eyes and warm your hearts. Patrick & Francesca. ISculpture Contemporary Sculpture Gallery

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iSculpture Contemporary Sculpture Gallery

Belmond – Castello di Casole

Casole d’Elsa , Siena

Italy

Journey into synthesis, A solo exhibition by Wilhelm Heiliger at iSculpture Gallery – San Gimignano

iSculpture Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Journey into synthesis”by Wilhelm Heiliger that will be held at the headquarters in San Gimignano (SI). The Catalogue, printed by the Gallery, will be presented during the opening.
iSculpture Gallery is pleased to offer its spaces to Wilhelm’s real yet fantastic works. We could ask ourselves what induces a gallery which deals exclusively with sculptures to present works that are apparently so far-removed from its usual proposal. The answer to this question lies in the desire to emphasise the importance of the relationship between shape and colour, concepts which are an absolute part of sculpture. The gallery also wants to open up to other forms of expression, to which alternative projects will be regularly dedicated in the future, highlighting once again the absolute non-existence of boundaries to beauty and art.

Opening on October the first at 6.00 p.m. with the presence of the artist.

Press release here!

Sculptures for a Scenery of Art

Sculptures for a Scenery of Art is the result of a collaboration between Hotel Castello di Casole and iSculpture Gallery, San Gimignano & Casole d’Elsa. Our aim is to pay homage to a landscape that is a work of art itself for its beauty and tradition, through a course of six contemporary art installations by six different Italian artists: Patrick Alò, Davide Dall’Osso, Mariano Fuga, Ivan Lardschneider, Gerald Moroder, Sergio Rubini… More information and pictures are available on our website.

We hope that you will enjoy!

Ivan Lardschneider at Expo Arte Italiana

La Galleria iSculpture è lieta di annunciare la presenza di Ivan Lardschneider con l’opera “Nodo alla Gola” ad Expo Arte Italiana, a cura del Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi. Luogo d’eccezione per questa importante iniziativa artistica è Villa Bagatti Valsecchi a Varedo (MB). Attraverso la promozione dell’arte contemporanea, la Fondazione La Versiera 1718, che ha indetto questa prima edizione di Expo Arte Italiana, ha come obiettivo il finanziamento del restauro e la valorizzazione della Villa Bagatti Valsecchi.

Un interessante e creativo processo di scambio fra un luogo ricco di storia, architettonico ed artistico, e la necessità dell’arte contemporanea di inserirsi in contesti differenti, sono fra le motivazioni di questo evento. La produzione artistica di Ivan Lardschneider si inserisce a pieno titolo in questo processo di scambio. Le sue opere hanno le radici nella tradizione, quella della scultura lignea gardenese, quello delle eleganti e raffinate figure religiose delle nostre chiese, ma l’artista se ne distacca grazie ad una sintassi artistica nuova ed unica. Lardschneider ci consente di tornare al senso primordiale di questa comunicazione perché usa un linguaggio semplice ed intuitivo. La sua figura lineare è assoluta, è ognuno di noi e non ha bisogno di altro se non dei gesti che sono i nostri, quelli di ogni giorno.

L’inaugurazione si terrà il 19 giugno alle ore 18.30 presso la Villa con il concerto di Klaus Savoldi Bellavitis accompagnato da l’Orchestra Filarmonica e diretta dal Maestro Maurizio Tambara. Dal 20 giugno fino al 31 ottobre la mostra sarà aperta al pubblico, dal martedì alla domenica dalle ore 10 alle 18.

Welcome to our new Sculptors!

We are glad to welcome the works of four talented and promising artists: Nazareno Biondo, Giorgio Di Palma, Nicola Evangelisti and Sergio Rubini.

Nazareno Biondo (Torino, 1985) He will amaze you with a new sculptural approach, where marble becomes the material of your everyday life’s objects.

Giorgio Di Palma (Grottaglie, 1981) Through a special time machine called ceramics he enjoys tranforming the useless in eternal and consecrating the moment.

Nicola Evangelisti (Bologna, 1972) The artist will introduce you to a new lighting and visual experience, illuminating new sculptural horizons.

Sergio Rubini (Canosa di Puglia, 1979) He will bring you back to the classic ages throughout a contemporary point of view, where bronze predominates.

A morning in Pistoia…

Some days ago we were in Pistoia (Tuscany), visiting The Salvadori Arte foundry. They makes bronze sculptures for the most important Italian and foreign artists as Barni, Mitoraj, Botero. We was there thanks to Giovanni Balderi‘s new works!

Salvadori Arte casts works in bronze using the “cire perdue” or lost wax method, the same technique used through the ages first by the Egyptians, then by the Greeks, Etruscan and Roman. This technique consists in covering with wax, that will be later modelled a refractory clay support; then another clay layer is put on the wax so that is encased between two masses of clay. By heating this clay container to a high heat, the wax melts and drips ut through some purposely made holes. The liquid alloy is then poured into the thin space left by the wax, usually just a few millimetres, then the allow cools and hardens the bronze cast has been accomplished. At last, through oxidation and thermal treatment, the bronze receives the patina.

My Tuscan Experience – Incontra l’Arte – Nutri l’Arte | A Collective Exhibition

Arte a Colori Gallery and iSculpture Gallery are glad to present

My Tuscan Experience –Meet Art Feed Art
Collective exhibition : Arte a Colori (Colle Val d’Elsa) 4-18 October 2014
Collective exhibition: iSculpture Gallery (San Gimignano) 5-18 October 2014

A work of art transmits and expresses messages and feelings, almost always by itself, without the presence of its author next to it. But knowing the genesis of the artwork (whose hands created it? which thoughts originated it?) is a special experience, and in our case even a social experience. It’s an experience we have proposed through a series of meetings taking shape in the collective exhibition Meet Ar_tFeed Art.
Organised under the High Patronage of the Italian Republic, of the European Union and of the Region of Tuscany, the project ”My Tuscan Experience‘‘, of which this exhibition is the final act, has involved five high quality tourist accomodations, two young and lively art galleries, 14 Tuscan artists: a common event and a project created for a selected audience choosing Val d’Elsa as its aim, with all its quality aspects.
There is a second theme and a leit motiv in this exhibition: the dictionary of the words used by the artists to describe their work, that has united and sometimes divided the description of the works of art. The instinctive translations of the words into the different languages spoken by the people who were present, is an act to show that art does not need google-translation and perfectionism, but it needs to find itself within its group and its social background. Each artist has a verbal tag*: a list of terms and expressions allowing us to write down the different ways of saying belonging to the foreign guests, and which has an interest in giving the work of art ”created in Tuscany” a non-provincial understanding and interpretation.
The hotels: Relais della Rovere, Sovestro, Villa San Lucchese, Bel Soggiorno have made their rooms and their professionality available for a warm welcome, and the artists of the different Galleries have made it special to exchange visaual and verbal contacts, firstly taking part in the conversation and in the research.
In the Galleries Francesca Sensi Arte a Colori (Colle Val d’Elsa) and iSculpture (San Gimignano) these artists’ works of art will be shown from October 4st 2014: Elisa Bertaglia, Nicola Bertellotti, Matteo Cocci, Susan Leyland, Marco Manzella, Alessandro Reggioli, Tommaso Santucci, Mariano Fuga, Marco Cipolli, Irene Giannaccini, Fabrizio Lucchesi, Alessandro Marzetti, Simona Ragazzi and the tagged words, working as an international ”didascalic tour” of the presented artwork.
Meet Art_Feed Art is a collective exhibition conceived for enhancing Tuscan excellencies and it represents the start of a new project called ”Experential Tourism”.

Opening at Arte a Colori Gallery – Colle Val d’Elsa (SI): Saturday October 04th at 6.00 p.m. 

Opening at iSculpture Gallery – San Gimignano (SI): Sunday October 05th at 6.00 p.m. 

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La Galleria Arte a Colori e la Galleria iSculpture sono liete di presentare

My Tuscan Experience – Feed Art Meet Art

Mostra Collettiva: Arte A Colori (Colle Val d’Elsa) | 4 – 18 Ottobre 2014
Mostra Collettiva: iSculpture Gallery (San Gimignano) | 5 – 18 Ottobre 2014

L’opera d’arte trasmette e veicola messaggi e sensazioni, quasi sempre lo fa da sola, senza il bisogno del suo autore a fianco. Conoscere tuttavia la paternità dell’opera (quali mani l’hanno creata, quali pensieri l’hanno suggerita) è un’esperienza speciale e nel nostro caso anche sociale. Una esperienza che abbiamo fatto vivere attraverso una serie di incontri, che si concretizzano nella mostra collettiva Feed Art – Meet Art (Incontra l’arte – Nutri l’arte).
Realizzato sotto l’Alto Patronato della Repubblica Italiana, dell’Unione Europea e della Regione Toscana, il progetto “My Tuscan Experience”, di cui la mostra è l’atto finale, ha coinvolto cinque strutture ricettive di alto pregio del territorio, due Gallerie d’Arte giovani e dinamiche, 14 artisti toscani: una comunione d’intenti ed un progetto creato per un pubblico selezionato che sceglie, come meta, la Val d’Elsa e le sue eccellenze.
Leit-motiv dell’esperienza è stato il vocabolario delle parole utilizzate dagli artisti per descrivere il loro operato, che ha unito, e a volte diviso, la descrizione dell’opera d’arte. Le traduzioni istintive dei vocaboli, nelle varie lingue di appartenenza di chi era presente, è un atto per dimostrare che l’arte non ha bisogno di google traslation e di perfezionismi, ma ha bisogno di ritrovarsi nel gruppo e nel sociale. Ad ogni artista sono stati associati alcuni tag* verbali: un elenco di termini ed espressioni che ci ha permesso di annotare i differenti modi di dire degli ospiti stranieri e che ha la volontà di restituire all’opera “created in tuscany” una comprensione non provinciale.
Gli Hotel della Rovere, Hotel Sovestro, Hotel Villa San Lucchese, Hotel Belsoggiorno hanno messo a disposizione i loro locali e la loro professionalità per una calorosa accoglienza e gli artisti delle rispettive Gallerie hanno reso speciale lo scambio visivo/verbale, partecipando in primis alla conversazione e alla ricerca.
Presso le Gallerie Francesca Sensi Arte A Colori (Colle di Val d’Elsa) e iSculpture (San Gimignano) saranno esposte fino al 18 Ottobre 2014 le opere degli artisti: Elisa Bertaglia, Nicola Bertellotti, Matteo Cocci, Susan Leyland, Marco Manzella, Alessandro Reggioli, Tommaso Santucci, Mariano Fuga, Marco Cipolli, Irene Giannacchini, Fabrizio Lucchesi, Alessandro Marzetti, Simona Ragazzi e le parole in tag, come idea di una didascalia “internazionale” dei lavori presentati.
Feed Art – Meet Art è una mostra collettiva pensata per la valorizzazione delle eccellenze (created in Toscana) ed è l’incipit di nuovo progetto chiamato “Turismo Esperienziale“.

Inaugurazione Sabato 4 Ottobre alle 17, presso la Galleria Arte A Colori, Colle di Val d’Elsa (SI)

Inaugurazione Domenica 5 Ottobre ore 18, iSculpture Gallery, San Gimignano (SI)

iSculpture Art Gallery,
Via Berignano 9,
53037 San Gimignano (SI)
Tel: +39 0577 940207
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Exhibitions at iSculpture Gallery – San Gimignano & Casole d’Elsa

The iSculpture Gallery is grateful to all the guests that kindly attended our events!
Waiting for the upcoming ones, enjoy some pictures taken during the openings…

 

 

Beyond Time. Solo exhibition by Simona Ragazzi at iSculpture Gallery – Casole d’Elsa

iSculpture Gallery – San Gimignano & Casole d’Elsa is pleased to present

Simona Ragazzi: Beyond Time

 Solo Exhibition: iSculpture Art Gallery Casole d’Elsa | September 20th – October 4th, 2014

Meet Art-Feed Art with Simona Ragazzi | September 19th, 2014

After two years since the first exhibition dedicated to Simona Ragazzi, iSculpture Gallery is pleased to present “Beyond Time. Finds of the twenty-first Century A.D.” that will be held at the new venue of Casole d’Elsa. From the reflection on the concept of duality, on the introspective dimension and the outward appearance that characterized the 2012 exhibition, titled “In & Out“, the artist now turns her attention to the analysis of certain archetypes of our globalized civilization.
The “findings” suggest attention and “love” for life: in particular those directly related to the daily dimension such as “Testa di ragazza” or “Scriba” heir to the thousand-year old Mediterranean tradition that has its roots in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
These art works by Simona Ragazzi are the mirror of a great vital and creative force. Made of different materials, from clay to bronze, they enclose a language rich of explicit iconographic citations. The Bolognese artist has developed an important work of semiotic research on the current art and culture. In fact, the works trace a direct line between the contemporary figurative codes and the archaic cultural elements by meditating on the relationship between past, present and future and by providing suggestions, readings and new narratives. These new archaeological works of Ragazzi reveal a high conceptual and communicative profile which intertwines the dimensions of time and space with sensitivity and humor.

 In order to present the new artistic project even in the historic setting of San Gimignano, we have included a meeting with Simona Ragazzi in the project “Meet Art-Feed Art“, patronized by the Tuscan Region and the European Union. The event will take place September 19th at the Hotel Bel Soggiorno in San Gimignano and the theme will be “The ceramic vocabulary“.

Opening at iSculpture Gallery – Casole d’Elsa (SI): Saturday September 20th at 6.30 p.m. 

Aperitif with the artist “Meet Art – Feed Art” at the Hotel Bel Soggiorno – San Gimignano (SI):
Friday, September 5th at 6.30 p.m.

 

News and info:

iSculpture Art Gallery,
Via Berignano 9,
53037 San Gimignano (SI)
Tel: +39 0577 940207
info@isculpture.it
www.isculpture.it

Simona Ragazzi
Simona Ragazzi was born in Bologna in 1969 where she developed her artistic career. She graduated in Painting Techniques at the ISART and later in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine arts in Bologna. She exhibited in various private and public locations, participating in Biennials, Competitions and Art Fairs in Italy and abroad. Her art works are part of private and public collections all over the World.

iSculpture Gallery
iSculpture was established in 2012 by Francesca Cundari and Patrick Pii, with the aim to promote both young and successful Italian sculptors. Our attention is mostly focused on the research of the new borders of the Italian figurative arts. Updated in taste and in the concept of “beauty”, sculpture is perhaps the most complete art kind, in which matter and shape come together in a continuous challenge to renewal, without ever leaving a constant acquisition of consolidated parameters relating to balance and know-how. The works of our selected artists represent a significant example of contemporary Italian sculptural production in the field of ceramics, bronze, alabaster, wood, marble and iron. Tradition and modernity merge together in the 14th century architecture and the renovation works, facilitating a timeless dialogue between the art works and the spectator. Its first location in San Gimignano, is today joined by a further exhibiting space in Casole d’Elsa (SI), at the border between the provinces of Siena and Pisa, crossed by international cultural and artistic fervors since many years ago.

A day in Pietrasanta – Marble and…

Yesterday we spent an amazing day in Pietrasanta (Tuscany), visiting “old and new” artists and…

Enjoy some pictures!

 

Lo Spazio dell’Essere. Solo Exhibition of Gerald Moroder at iSculpture Gallery San Gimignano

iSculpture Gallery– San Gimignano & Casole d’Elsa is pleased to present

 Gerald Moroder: Lo Spazio dell’Essere

 Solo Exhibition: iSculpture Art Gallery San Gimignano | September 6th – 21st, 2014

Site Specific Installations: Tenuta Castello di Casole| September 5th – 21st, 2014

 iSculpture Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Gerald Moroder “Lo spazio dell’Essere” (The Space of Being) which will be held at its venue in San Gimignano (SI). An exhibition Catalogue will be printed by the gallery. At the same time, two site specific installations will be presented at Castello di Casole (Siena) with the titles of “Eccomi !” and “Guardare oltre“.
The new art project by Gerald Moroder (Milan, 1972), “The Space of Being”, arises as a starting point for a new design research, totally addressed to the exaltation of matter, by undertaking a so different and more radical research than in the past. Ever since Gerald Moroder’s figures feel the need to become essential, to transcend until dematerializing and being mere spirit. Its lines, carved first in wood and later formed in a porphyry mass, despite gravity of the material, seem to dance, wandering aimlessly or freeing themselves in the air, bowing backwards in order to cover an indefinite space.
With “The Space of Being“, the sculptor leaves its curved or slender human figure, distinctive of its production, but it continues to live there as the breath of life, nearly celestial. It’s the material and the most sublime concept of Being to characterize Gerald Moroder’s poetic and source of inspiration.
The panels presented in the exhibition represent a meditation on time and space modulated in plastic terms. The eroded and scratched surfaces, with concave accents and sharp cuts, represent a profound reflection on the separation of private and figuration. They are essential in their complexity, they are figurative in terms of pure abstraction, they are starry nights, branches that are intertwined withgrass blades.
In order to propose a more careful and a wide-ranging reading of his artistic production, the works for the site specific installation at the beautiful setting of the Castello di Casole (Siena) were chosen from the triptych “Guardare Oltre” and “Eccomi!”. These works represent the culmination of years of research, both material and stylistic, as the Art Critic Chiara Canali highlights: “In an ideal circular vortex, the lean and long-limbed figures modeled by the artist are the same man caught in different stages of dematerialization that wants to arrive at a form of levity, fade, intangibility of the being”.
Again it’s the material which unites two apparently distinct productions. The material represents the artist’s binding to the own region from the initial use of wood in the local tradition to the porphyry, the rock of his mountains. Through these ancient materials he is determined to find a configuration that matches the sense of a break with the world, or a wound, or a laceration with the existing to be bridged with a hug.

  Opening at the Hotel Castello di Casole (SI): Friday, September 5th at 6 p.m.

Presentation of the Solo Exhibition at iSculpture Gallery San Gimignano (SI): Saturday September 6th at 6 p.m.

Gerald Moroder
He was born in Milan in 1972. After the Art Institute of Ortisei (BZ), he began an apprenticeship with different sculptors. Member of Unika, an association of craftsmen and artists of Val Gardena, created to protect and guarantee the local arts and craftsmanship. Over the years he has participated in numerous public and private exhibitions in different art galleries and museums, both in Italy and abroad, particularly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He creates his sculptures with various materials such as wood, iron, porphyry mixtures, soil and brick. In the centre of his artistic quest, Moroder puts the human being whose fragility he lays bare thanks to formal reduction and thus recalling more universal existential issues.

iSculpture Gallery
iSculpture was established in 2012 by Francesca Cundari and Patrick Pii, with the aim to promote both young and successful Italian sculptors. Our attention is mostly focused on the research of the new borders of the Italian figurative arts. Updated in taste and in the concept of “beauty”, sculpture is perhaps the most complete art kind, in which matter and shape come together in a continuous challenge to renewal, without ever leaving a constant acquisition of consolidated parameters relating to balance and know-how. The works of our selected artists represent a significant example of contemporary Italian sculptural production in the field of ceramics, bronze, alabaster, wood, marble and iron. Tradition and modernity merge together in the 14th century architecture and the renovation works, facilitating a timeless dialogue between the art works and the spectator. Its first location in San Gimignano, is today joined by a further exhibiting space in Casole d’Elsa (SI), at the border between the provinces of Siena and Pisa, crossed by international cultural and artistic fervors since many years ago.

Castello di Casole
Castello di Casole, one of the largest private estates in Italy, is located in heart of Tuscany, near the beautiful cities of Florence, Siena and San Gimignano. The castle’s rich history dates back to the end of the 10th century, when it was built and christened Querceto Manor. Querceto Manor often hosted the political exiles of nearby Siena until it fell into decline starting in the 15th century. Owned and reconstructed during the 19th and 20th centuries by the Bargagli family of Siena – esteemed local aristocracy – the castle rose to a prominent position in the region, as the surrounding estate was a leading agricultural producer with 31 farms on 2200 acres. During the late 20th century the Castello was owned by prominent Italian film director Luchino Visconti, who entertained European and Hollywood luminaries throughout the estate. For the Timbers Resorts, owner of the estate, has always been a priority to preserve the rich history of Tuscany and the constant cultural promotion of the “Made in Italy”. Among the expressions of this desire is part of the program of events and exhibitions in collaboration with iSculpture Gallery  in  San Gimignano.

News and info:

iSculpture Art Gallery,
Via Berignano 9,
53037 San Gimignano (SI)
Tel: +39 0577 940207
info@isculpture
www.isculpture.it

Dialoghi – Solo exhibition by Rudy Pulcinelli

La Banca Ipibi Financial Advisory, nella sua prestigiosa sede romana, ospiterà per due mesi (15 Maggio – 15 Luglio 2014) la mostra personale “Dialoghi” dell’artista toscano Rudy Pulcinelli, a cura di Lisa Bonetti Spalenza.

In mostra saranno esposte circa venti opere tra sculture realizzate in acciaio corten, disegni su carta cotone, ceramiche e un’installazione monumentale in polistirolo. L’androne d’ingresso, le sale di rappresentanza e il loggiato del primo piano sono stati contaminati dall’artista con sculture di vario formato, sia da appoggio, sia a parete. Rudy Pulcinelli si serve dei sette alfabeti più diffusi al mondo per esplorare il tema della comunicazione. Gli intrecci di lettere formano maglie indistricabili dalle quali scaturisce un messaggio di portata universale: un appello al dialogo. Cumuli e intrecci di simboli si ergono a Esperanto invocando alla speranza di un futuro senza interferenze nella comunicazione tra i popoli.  (Maggiori info)

Il 15 Maggio si è tenuta l’inaugurazione, eccovi un po’ di foto!

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The Bank Ipibi Financial Advisory, in its prestigious Roman headquarters, is hosting for two months (May 15 to July 15 in 2014) the exhibition “Dialogues” of the Tuscan artist Rudy Pulcinelli, edited by Lisa Bonetti Spalenza.

Over twenty works will be on display, including sculptures made of corten steel, cotton paper, ceramics and a monumental installation made of polystyrene. The hall entrance, the reception rooms and the gallery on the first floor have been contaminated by the artist with sculptures of various sizes. Rudy Pulcinelli uses the seven most common alphabets in the world to explore the theme of communication. The inextricable intertwining letters form a mesh from which a message of universal significance springs: a call for dialogue. Heaps and intricate symbols stand in Esperanto invoking the hope of a future without interference in the communication between peoples.

May 15 was held the inauguration, here’s a bit ‘ of photos !

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the new Artist!

Caterina Zacchetti was born in Milan 1979. She graduated from the Academy of Belle Arti in Brera, where she studied sculpture and she won a scholarship at the Acadamy of Bellas Artes Miguel Hernandez in Altea, in Spain. She moved to Formentera and than to Barcelona…

More information about Caterina are on iScultpure Gallery.