anna maria sacconi
red crossings
17 november 2006 - 12 january 2007
From red crossings
To red crossings
from red crossings, lines, arrows, bricks, trains, back to red crossings.
from red crossings where you find yourself in the same place. where you go. where you started. where you aim to go. bridges, houses, bricks, trains and tracks. train crossings. sitting in a train watching the view, glimpses through the window. picture, picture, picture. all blend back into the same window view. all dressed in red, the utmost of the primary colours, the only colour. finally you return to the place where you started.
At red crossings, paintings and everyday art works for your pickings.
Roman architect and artist, Anna Maria Sacconi, twists and plays with the meaning of objects, with the likes of a brick-like painting, a boat-like home, a falling down-school, a building-like chair, a shopping bag-apron. She first dedicated herself to changing landscape, with the design and building of public works, cemeteries, city halls and the like. And starting in the 1990s, her attention moved inward, concentrating on personal living space. She designed and produced furniture, sculptures and more in her own way of twisting the expected concepts of each. For example, in this period, she built transformational beds, bookcases and chairs which could fold and turn into tables, windows and boxes. The essence of her objects are ironically torn out, twisted and replaced. Her free-thinking work suggests a fluid and flexible essence underlying the typically solid, static appearance of the material world.
In this show, her buildings and furniture continue to be seen in her paintings. In her attempt to quietly transform the meanings and uses of objects, in this show, she offers red crossings, playful works of art as well as everyday art objects, to wear, to carry and above all to use. back to basic, peaceful and simple.
This show at Whitecross Gallery is a must, suggesting new twists of art and pushing one’s limit of interpretation off the board.
Her art has been shown in Rome, Milan, Frankfurt, NY and more. Recent shows:
The house, shopping bag, Rome 2004
La Piazza, Rome 2005
Circle of Art, New York, 2006
Wedding, Rome 2006
Sally Berman