NOCTURNES

Curated and produced by Eraldo Mauro - Studio & Settings

We took care of all relationships with the City, the State and Public Offices. Solved the technical difficulties for the setting-up, organised Logistic, Curated the catalog design

The art of Karen LaMonte unites culture and glass in an unprecedented symbiosis. The transparent mass is selected and shaped to lend soul to works that deliberately delineate the outer shell while withholding the essence within. Hers is an expressive language that carries classicism — known to us for its idioms of abundant drapery and commanding grandeur — into a world that is solid yet, in an ideal sense, fluid.
This exhibition offers a significant opportunity to recount the history of glass not only by casting an eye back to the past, but above all by opening decisively towards the contemporary. Here the artist relinquishes decorativism, technical flourish and colour, approaching the material with rigorous re- straint and profound respect, born of an intimate understanding of glass, its limits and its potential. LaMonte’s works are thus sculptures predicated on equilibrium and harmony, where effects of tran- sparency converse with mute materials such as marble.
s precise intention, which opens vistas poised between the rational and the fantastic.
It is no coincidence that Canova’s works have been placed in dialogue with hers: an opportunity to trace connections and resonances linking works from different eras and fashioned from different materials, yet all striving towards a paradigm founded on beauty.