Exhibition Details

Carwan Gallery, in collaboration with IN Residence and Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, is pleased to present Ruins, a body of work by Roberto Sironi. The project developed in 2017 is the result of four years of research - enriched by a series of new works that complete the collection.
Ruins feature a series of works that reimagine architectural fragments belonging to different historical periods which refer to the most significant archaeological sites placed in the Mediterranean basin. The project relates some constructive elements of the classical era as bases of columns, capitals, sections of an amphitheatre with rudiments of the industrial era, such as the double-T beams, reticular structural elements and corrugated sheet metal, which are reshaped according to a new aesthetic perspective. The collection is conceived as a series of contemporary ruins, freely deconstructed and reconstructed, imaginary simulacra, programmed artifices where the materials and techniques of execution do not correspond to the original but rather become functional to the past archaeological message conveyed, transmitting a feeling of 'indefinite time' that become hypothetical, evanescent and suspended.
Roberto Sironi got the opportunity to develop Ruins owing to the selection of the international residency program: IN Residence Design which was curated by Barbara Brondi and Marco Rainò to produce exquisite works with bronze experts Fonderia Artistica Battaglia and Simone Desirò, Marmi Artificiali di Rima. The project is also illustrated by a monographic publication curated by Barbara Brondi and Marco Rainò and published by NERO Editions, 2020.