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Bortolami is very pleased to announce a solo exhibition with the eminent and iconoclastic Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani. His first exhibition in the United States since 1986, this show will bring together new and historical works across a variety of media that exemplify Parmiggiani’s fundamental concerns with memory, absence, fragmentation, solitude, silence and uncertainty.
Parmiggiani’s sculptural installations and interventions are simple gestures with profound resonance; he has been associated with both the Arte Povera and Conceptual Art movements, although he resists firm connection to either. Among the works in the exhibition will be a sixteenth-century bronze church bell hung from the ceiling by its tongue (as if choked, unable to produce sound); a series of sculptural assemblages from the 1970s consisting of antique plaster heads coupled with books, butterflies and birds nests; and 365 loaves of bread cast in iron and scattered across the floor, symbolizing not only essential nourishment but also invoking the dichotomy of the ephemeral and the eternal.
Works
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Untitled, 2014
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Untitled, 2014
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Il Sogno di Marcellino](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/1a1cc654ee561dc6b470324b6495261c40e0e08d-1000x1267.jpg?w=800)
Il Sogno di Marcellino, 1977
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Delocazione](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/53753fd7863b537f9559633f34a52e76811204eb-2000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Delocazione, 2014
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Untitled, 2014
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Untitled, 1975
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Untitled, 1975
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