artworks by franco bellucci exhibited at the ECK Museum, italia
nothing is connected to everything, everything is connected to something
Following a line of sight beyond the western paradigm of the transcendental human subject, the exhibition nothing is connected to everything, everything is connected to something tentatively explores the concept of assemblage.
An assemblage signifies a becoming that brings together heterogeneous parts into a provisional whole. It is not a series of predefined parts that are brought together to form an already planned structure, but rather a rearrangement of elements – social practices, discursive statements, ideological positions etc. We are entangled in and determined by many assemblages.
The works in this exhibition enact the battle of the desire to escape definition and question the possibility of limited freedom on a micropolitical level. A world beyond values and meanings opens that seems to be predestined by our biological makeup, evolutionary heritage, historical-political and familial structures of life. The diverse works are in dialogue with as well as in opposition to one another and, among other things, address the question of what our subjectivity is made of.
A frequent participant to the Blu Cammello workshop in Livorno, Bellucci was first discovered by artist Riccardo Bargellini. The hybrid sculptures he produces are made up of heterogeneous objects whose fates are inexorably linked, observed sometimes through the prism of their transitional, fetishist or apotropaic value.
Present in the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Pompidou) and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, his works have been shown in several major exhibitions, notably at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
“These works are endowed with a symbolic power that many ‘professional’ artists are incapable of achieving. “(P. Dagen, Le Monde)