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.
Bellucci attended the Blu Cammello workshop in Livorno, where he was brought to light by the artist Riccardo Bargellini. His hybrid sculptures, born from the assemblage of eclectic objects, form a mysterious language where destinies intertwine and echo one another, seen through the lens of transition, fetishism, or the apotropaic.
His works, part of the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Pompidou) and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, have been showcased in numerous 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)