The Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Foundation for Contemporary Art
curated by Marta Papini
The works of Isabella Ducrot (1931, Naples) depict potted plants and flowers, created by layering brightly coloured pieces of paper and fabric cuttings, together with elements such as wool threads and embroidery. Each composition is unique, drawing from an archive of antique materials.
A Story Yet to be Written
Blooming lilies and vines laden with bunches of grapes adorn the ancient, dark wood of the entrance door to the Church of the Dimesse in Thiene, marking the boundary between sacred and profane. In the history of sacred art, plants, flowers, and trees have always had a symbolic function, never being the subject for their own sake. Isabella Ducrot. Vegetal Devotion is the inaugural solo show of the exhibition programme at Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo, which, within the walls of the Complesso delle Dimesse, provides a space for subjects traditionally excluded from the anthropocentric and patriarchal gaze of Western art history.
In her book La vita femminile , artist and writer Isabella Ducrot – born 1931, Naples, protagonist of the first exhibition of the programme – reflects on the necessity of “regressing to the time of childhood” and of “always remembering to belong to the female gender […] that segment of the human population devoid of its own history”. It is precisely the absence from history that becomes the protagonist of the solo exhibitions at the Bonollo Foundation, starting from the exhibition “Vegetal Devotion.“
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