On Thursday 25 February at 18:00, the exhibition Mary Cinque. My favorite things, dedicated to the artist's most recent production, opens to the public online on the digital channels of the Museo FRaC.
"The exhibition of Mary Cinque's works - says Gianfranco Valiante, mayor of Baronissi - turns attention to a young artist from Campania who has been working for a long time between the Amalfi Coast, London and Los Angeles. An exhibition promoted by the Regional Museum-Fund of Contemporary Art of Baronissi which, on the one hand confirms our support for young artists in the area, on the other hand is the bearer of a message of joy and positivity in such a delicate moment for our country, which, despite the many difficulties, actively participates in mending the many wounds that our society is suffering ".
In this sense, the collection of works belonging to Mary Cinque's recent production, between oil pastels and digital painting, is a celebration of everyday life and the small joys that it offers us.
“Like the pages of an album – reveals Pasquale Ruocco, curator of the exhibition – the recent works created by Mary Cinque follow one another. Sheets, some of which are exhibited at the Palü gallery in St Moritz, between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, from which emerge memories of places, in particular London, where she lived in recent years, and of the Amalfi Coast, of travels, of people, but also of passions and hopes, wrapped in a sense of nostalgia for those little things that silently, now we are starting to notice more, color our daily lives […]. The inspiration comes from the famous song by Oscar Hemmerstein II and Richards Rogers, My favorite things, whose words seem to vibrate in the soft and brilliant matter of oil pastels, as well as in the electronic substance of digital painting, in a work still capable of reflecting on the role of the image in the history of art, taking into account its technological evolutions, for example from the invention of Sennelier's pastels to the possibilities offered by modern graphic tablets. […] Mary Cinque seems to address, through an intimate narration, the current state of things, working on what we lack, exalting what should be precious to us, sharing and conviviality, translated as images of a joie de vivre to be renewed, in which terms such as lockdown and social distancing exclusively represent the moment in which we have rediscovered our humanity”.
The exhibition will be visible online until March 19.
Mary Cinque she spent her childhood between Ethiopia and Italy where she was born and attended the Academies of Fine Arts in Naples and Milan. Her education was further enriched by numerous trips, including a three-month stay in 2006 between Philadelphia and New York which strongly influences her work on the city and the urban landscape, and then, between 2017 and 2019 in London, where she had the opportunity to deepen both the use of oil pastel and the use of digital painting.
Among his solo exhibitions, we remember “Aereo” in 2009, set up at the Largo Baracche space in Naples, and “Giramondo” held at the Foundry in London. In the same year he exhibited “Acque Chiare” at the Palazzo Sasso (now Avino) in Ravello, while in 2011 he exhibited “Acque d'Italia” at the Library of the Faculty of Architecture and created the installation “Città in istanti” at the Cloister of San Galgano of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Siena.
In 2013, the exhibition “Urban stories” was held at the MARTE in Cava de' Tirreni, while in 2015 the artist set up “An idea of Paris” at the French Institute in Naples, and in 2016 the exhibition “ECO-” was held at the Fornace Falcone showroom. The same year, the solo exhibition “L'illusione di Dedalo” was set up at the Centro Luigi di Sarro, in 2017 at the Institute of Italian Culture Abroad in Cologne and in 2019 at the FRaC Museum in Baronissi.
In recent years, he has held a solo exhibition organized by the Galerie Palü in Pontresina, Switzerland, where he exhibited a series of works dedicated to St. Moritz. Among his collective exhibitions, we remember “La défense. Priority of time, necessity of space” at the Fës Show in Minori in 2009, and “Sguardi Irrequieti” set up at the Castello dell'Abate in Castellabate. In 2010, he participated in “Capturing the elusive here”, a workshop held in Monza by the Hispanic-American artist Isidro Blasco, and in “Eruption/Eruzione” at the White Box Gallery in New York. The following year, he exhibited at the Campania Pavilion set up at the former Tobacconist Centola in Pontecagnano, on the occasion of the “54th Venice Biennale”.
In 2012 she participated in “NINA. Nuova immagine napoletana” set up at the Pan in Naples, while in 2013 she was invited to “Trames/Tramites” set up at the Porta degli Angeli in Ferrara and “Iside Contemporanea” organized by the ARCOS Museum in Benevento. Recently her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles at The loft at Liz's and the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825.
His works are kept by the Museo-FRaC Baronissi, by the MÄ – Museo d'arte ambientale of Giffoni Sei Casali (SA) and by the Istituto Istruzione Superiore Marini Gioia of Amalfi. He lives and works in Agerola.
Article published on 23 February 2021 - 15:10
