Sculptureless Sculpture, Villa Lontana

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Sculptureless Sculpture, Villa Lontana, Rome' 17 May - 6 June 2018 at Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy.

This exhibition at Villa Lontana launches a new collaborative exchange between the Fondazione Dino ed Ernesta Santarelli and contemporary art. Through creating a series of intimate juxtapositions, we hope to draw attention to the performative and sculptural elements that are inherent in classical statuary and architectural fragments, to the potential of being experienced within the context and concerns of contemporary practice.

Rather than showing exhibition installation views, this black and white publication presents photographic documentation of the sculptures and artifacts included from the Dinos and Ernsesta Santarelli Fondazione and similarly that of the artists.

Sculptureless Sculpture brings film and other projected work with selected artworks and fragments from the Fondazione Santarelli. John Baldessari, I Am Making Art (1971) and Baldessari Sings LeWitt (1973), Elisabetta Benassi, Son of Niobe (2013), Ketty La Rocca, Appendice Per Una Supplica (1972), Mario Merz, Lumaca (1970) and Ad Reinhardt Travel Slides (1952-1967) will be shown alongside a selection of works from the Fondazione Santarelli including: Giove Eliopolitano III AD, Greek female head I BC, arm fragment II AD, torso of Alexander the Great III AD, fragment of striated sarcophagus II AD, Pinax with theater masks I AD, Etruscan high relief of Perseus and Medusa V BC and a cleric from Palmyra III AD.