Chiara Dynys, SIPARIO

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In Sipario (Curtain) the artist turns her research towards a form of spontaneous photography that captures the external world. It is no longer a question of creating places and installations endowed with a surprising dematerialised lightness, but of seeking out those people and places which, as on a theatre stage, spontaneously present themselves in a light, often enchanted atmosphere. The images of Sipario are therefore theatrical scenes and the viewers are the public. On stage, the discomfort and depression of more advanced societies are contrasted with the situational simplicity of characters who are characterised as immediate and generally happy and dreamy. Sipario is a discourse on humanity, on the energy in people’s presence and on their current ability to live as if they were dreaming. When the curtain remains open, it is as if the artist were identifying an existential opening. When the curtain closes on the images, it is as if the possibility of immediate happiness, even naive happiness, disappears from the horizon to make way instead for a more suffocated way of life.

«I have always understood space as a mental realm that transcends the physical dimension. Space is for me a point that identifies the ‘passage’. The crossing, and therefore the point of departure and the point of arrival that come together in the same moment: the moment of illusion and deception, the moment of the metaphor of the encounter between one’s self and the world, and therefore between one’s self and reality.»
Chiara Dynys

THE ARTIST

Chiara Dynys was born in Mantua in 1958. Today she lives and works in Milan. She began exhibiting in 1987 at the Vivita Due gallery in Florence. Over the years her work has been exhibited in important galleries and public institutions, especially in Germany and Switzerland. In Milan she is represented by the Monica De Cardenas Gallery, where she exhibited in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2005. In 1996 she exhibited in Geneva at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, and in 1998 she held an important exhibition at the Massimo Martino Gallery in Mendrisio. In 2004 she exhibited at the Kunst Museum in Bonn. In 2005, she created a permanent installation at Mart in Rovereto. In 2006 she created two permanent installations: in the courtyard of the Casa dello Studente at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and at the Church of the Santo Volto di Gesù in Rome. In 2007 she set up Luce negli occhi at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan, where she retraced the most important stages of her creative career with a sequence of installations and environments. In recent years, her work has focused on research in the field of cinema.