curada por Fabio Cavalluchi
26 junio- 31 de octubre

The XIVth International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, curated by Fabio
Cavallucci and entitled Postmonument will take place From 26 June to 31
October 2010.

The logical thread running through the whole of this edition is in fact the
theme of  the monument,  or  rather  the radical  process of  de-
monumentalisation which in the last century detached sculpture from The monument is an emblem of power, a tool for controlling the masses and
making them conform, but it is also the catalyst of national values and an
irreplaceable piece in the jigsaw of collective memory. It became one of the
main targets in revolts and revolutions, and was then wholly swept away when
the ideals of democracy and freedom of our time took hold. However, in
today’s mobile, changing scenario, in this atmosphere of fin-de-siècle and of
the rewriting of history, alongside the predominant contemporary iconoclasm
we can sense a gradual re-emergence of the codes and values of the past.
Will we again identify ourselves in new monuments?

It is Carrara which provides the cues and suggestions for specific works.
Carrara is in fact an authentic town with marked, clearly-recognisable
features:  the traces of the hard labour of the quarrymen which remain as
sediments in the territory; the unique anarchic tradition; the antiquity of the
town centre; and the lively micro-cosmos of the Fine Arts Academy. The
Carrara territory, which has always been connected with the quarrying and
working of marble, and where Michelangelo and Canova took up residence
while they searched for the right material for their works, has suffered more
than others from the decline of traditional sculpture followed by the collapse of
the 20th-century symbols and ideologies. The local context thus acts as a
mirror for the cracks in the symbolic and productive system of the whole
western world, and it is from a contemplation of this real situation that the
guest artists of the exhibition draw their inspiration.