Chiara Camoni: art as a link between nature and spirit

For Chiara Camoni, art is the gateway to an ancestral and archaic world. Like a sort of shaman, the artist has the power to transform domestic objects or organic materials into sculptures that straddle the artisan and the spiritual sphere. Herbs, berries and flowers, but also different types of clay and ash determine the distinctive natural shades of her works and recall earth and vegetation. Her practice is pervaded by a very relevant collective and exchange dimension: the artist often makes use of collaborations with friends and relatives to create her works. The exhibition in Pirelli HangarBicocca brings together the largest corpus of Chiara Camoni's works ever presented and, together with a series of new productions, gives life to an architecture of community and contemplation, inspired in its forms by the late Renaissance Italian garden and ancient amphitheatres.