Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano is dedicating a tribute to the artist Adolf Vallazza, born in Ortisei, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
The exhibition in the Museion Passage is being realized in collaboration with the Archivio Adolf Vallazza and brings together a selection of drawings from the 1960s to the present day as well as ten large-format abstract wooden sculptures, which will be on display together in a museum space for the first time.
The exhibition comprises mainly abstract wooden sculptures by the artist - totems, menhirs and bird sculptures, including some works from the Museion collection - and also offers the general public the opportunity to get to know Vallazza's graphic work from the 1960s to the present day. The act of drawing has always accompanied his sculptural work and still does today. The drawings and sketches presented on the wall and in a display case vary in format and technique, but all bear witness to the artist's formal exploration and the spatial and symbolic relationships between his works.
Adolf Vallazza, Totem, 1987, mixed media on paper, 44.2 x 61 cm Museion Collection, photo: Gardaphoto s.r.l., Salò
For Adolf Vallazza, sculpture has a mutable meaning: it is an aesthetic composition, a throne or mythical totem or even a prop in a dance performance. A sculpture thus represents a layered surface into which contexts of meaning and functions have been inscribed that go beyond a specific time or interpretation - this is also a way of removing it from temporality and allowing it to interact with time itself as well as with the viewer.
March 13 to June 2, 2024
