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Roque Fucci

Schermata 2015-04-15 alle 09.47.19

The Italian Cultural Institute   Presents      

The 2014 Gotham Prize Winner 

Roque Fucci 

  Exhibition Opening

Schermata 2015-04-15 alle 09.48.22

Thursday, April 23

6PM

Italian Cultural Institute

686 Park Avenue

New York 

“I’m a craftsman into listening; maybe I copy from others or I recast things, I don’t know: things come out like this and I just accept them. However, when I’m at work, I try to understand, and stick to, the rules of the mineral roots of a vase, I adapt myself to the discipline imposed by materials that don’t very often allow for mistakes or adjustments. And I let other people find a meaning in this work, as though I were just a medium. And this meaning very often revolves around some such issues that come out any time I come across people living at the margins, people whose lives are marked by madness and crime. These so-called deviant subjectivities and their experiences marking (or, rather, defining?) social normality, bring nowadays back to life the inspiration, so often violently effaced by history, of many men and women.”

In the artistic work of Italian-Argentinian Roque Daniel Fucci the expertise of Etruscan pottery meets the ancient knowledge of the Andean tradition. In Torino Roque Fucci organizes ceramic lab projects centered on social marginality and mental illness contexts where he shares his mestizo language, prompting messages of divergent expressive force.

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The exhibit will remain on display until May 20  

Monday through Friday (10AM-4:30PM)

The catalogue of Roque Fucci is curated by Paola Gribaudo for GLI ORI.

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