Ode To Things

Ronan Bouroullec, John Currin, Filippo de Pisis, Peter Dreher, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Luigi Ghirri, Damien Hirst, Georges Jouve, Ingeborg Lundin, Aimée Moreau, Fischli/Weiss, Ed Ruscha, Ettore Sottsass, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Goran Trbuljak e Franco Vimercati.

Sarah Cosulich

Mutina for Art is pleased to present “Ode To Things”, a new exhibition project at Spazio Mutina Fiorano.
The exhibition —which takes its title from the homonymous poem by Pablo Neruda – celebrates the importance of the everyday, highlighting the different approaches through which art and design interpret common objects. The project, curated by Sarah Cosulich, reunites a selection of modern and contemporary paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects from the collection of Massimo Orsini.

The exhibition establishes a dialogue among the different languages of still life, allowing vases, bottles, and glasses to echo, reflect, and multiply themselves in space as in a fluid and apparent mirroring game. The life of things – a recurrent subject in the private collection and an essential source of inspiration for Mutina’s ceramic work - becomes an opportunity for an exchange without hierarchies which takes shape in a large all-encompassing composition.

As in Neruda’s poem, the “inanimate” comes alive, and the works become figures on stage suggesting new narrations, between illusionism, vanitas, semantics, and seduction of form. Images and things reveal themselves in the revolutionary possibility of imagining them, letting the beauty of the ordinary emerge within the revolutionary landscape of human desire.