Installations:
Paolo Grassino
Paolo Grassino research tells about bodies and secret worlds, about underground realities perceived through sounds, noises and different materials chosen by the (heavy and dark surfaces, soft compact rubber bands, aluminium bars, plastic molded wax on wooden supports, light and color). Through his sculptures and the artist, represents with a seductive theatricalism, the overwhelming and painful premonition of the departure, the inevitable trasformation of humanity into something unknown, artificial.
Before the eyes of the viewer is left open a sinister and unlikely theater, nevertheless appears as a reality, as something close and familiar. A hint of threat, destruction, violence surrounding these works, a latent foreboding that could inevitably be realized in the near future. Yet in all this confusion and despair, the artist always leaves a glimpse of a rebirth and redemption possibilty.
shiota chiharu
Her work Memory of Skin, presented at the 2001 Yokohama Biennial, began to attract widespread attention in Japan and internationally. The artist's creations are often related to childhood traumas and memories, and Shiota's use of memory has even reached the point of a bit of paranoia.
Shiota is known for large-scale works such as The Key In The Hand (2015), an elaborate entanglement of red thread and keys, which she made when selected to represent Japan at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Shiota’s work for YSP responds to and activates the unique architecture and heritage of the Chapel. Exemplary of her work’s resonance with memory and human relationships through the use of objects, the installation has interlaced the physical with conceptual to create a new visual plane – as if painting in mid-air.
Evoking emotions and memories is the most important characteristic of Chiharu Shiota's works. The black lines embody people's moments of repressed fear, touching people's fear of life, old age, sickness and death as well as reflections on emptiness, the tangled and interwoven lines wrap the space and extend new spaces, the artist's personal emotions and feelings are infinitely magnified, bringing the most shocking feelings to the audience.
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