Simultaneously with Marion Baruch’s monographic exhibition, the rooms on the ground floor of the Novecento Museum, historically reserved for the nourishment of the soul and body of the nuns who lived in the Leopoldine complex, welcome the work of a new generation of artists Chiara Baima Poma (1990, Cuorgnè, Turin), Fatima Bianchi (Como, 1981), Lucia Cantò (Pescara, 1995), Tuli Mekondjo (Angola, 1982), and Parul Thacker (Mumbai, 1973). The artists, different in origin, training and expressive modalities, are united by a research that draws on the deepest feelings of mankind and seems to express interest in issues related to spirituality.
Accompanying two of Parul Thacker’s works will be two sound installations composed by Frank Horvat. The works are part of a series called, The Book of the Time-Travellers of the Worlds – a Fathomless Zero. Chapter 1 of that worked opened at the 2024 Venice Biennale of Art. In January and February 2025 it travelled to the SURFACE exhibit in Jodhpur, India. Chapter 1 returns to Italy for this exhibition in Florence.
As part of a residency at the museum in February and March, Frank Horvat will compose Chapter 2 to accompany new textile artworks by Thacker.
In a time as complex, destructive and dramatic as the one we are living, can art be a form of spirituality, can artistic practice be a personal and collective space in which to experience faith, rituality, transcendence beyond materiality, towards a new temporal and spatial horizon?