CHIARA LECCA
CHIARA LECCA
Biography
Chiara Lecca was born in 1977 in Modigliana (province of Forlì-Cesena, IT) where she lives and works. She grew up closely to nature and animals in the family farm. Of those years marked by strong discoveries, she kept precious memories that largely define her artistic work. Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, she focuses on the relationship between human being and nature willing to show the distance between them created by contemporary society. Moreover, she aims at highlighting the contradiction inherent in the collective behavior that removes the instinctive human nature in favor of the rational side. The artist creates sculptures and installations where the opposites organic/inorganic, natural/industrial live together, inviting the spectator to question human’s origins. Animal derivates become matter for a process of an ambiguous semiotic turn.
Rabbit ears, hides and furs, ox and pig bladders – treated with taxidermy – take on new and unexpected forms where nature dialogues with the industrial and architectural components coming from the productive process, such as wood, ceramic, polyurethane and synthetic resin. In 2016 Chiara Lecca was selected among the finalists of the XVII Cairo Prize and exhibited at Palazzo Reale, Milan. Her work was presented in various institutions in Italy and Europe: in 2019 she was artist in residence at MACRO Asilo in Rome and in 2018 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid. Solo exhibitions were held in institutions such as: Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza and Collezioni Comunali D’Arte – Palazzo D’Accursio, Bologna (2017), Ghisla Art Collection Foundation, Locarno (2016), Naturkundemuseum Ottoneum, Kassel (2015), Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo, Milan (2013), MAR – Museum of City Art, Ravenna (2010).
Chiara Lecca also took part in group exhibitions in these institutions: Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea “Vero Stoppioni”, Santa Sofia and Museo Civico Varoli, Cotignola (2019), Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo (2018), Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck (2017), Palazzo Reale, Milan (2016), Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau (2016), Museo Poldi Pezzoli and Gallerie d’Italia, Milan (2013), International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza (2012), Spazio Thetis, Venice (2011), PROGR Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern (2008). The artist has been collaborating with Galleria Fumagalli since 2008. In the very same year her solo exhibition “Del maiale non si butta via niente” was held at the gallery in Bergamo, followed in 2010 by the catalog “Quintoquarto” with texts by Martina Cavallarin and Valerio Dehò. The gallery also promoted the publication of the monograph “Quod Paret”, published on the occasion of her solo show at Naturkundemuseum Ottoneum, Kassel in 2015.
Biography
Chiara Lecca was born in 1977 in Modigliana (province of Forlì-Cesena, IT) where she lives and works. She grew up closely to nature and animals in the family farm. Of those years marked by strong discoveries, she kept precious memories that largely define her artistic work. Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, she focuses on the relationship between human being and nature willing to show the distance between them created by contemporary society. Moreover, she aims at highlighting the contradiction inherent in the collective behavior that removes the instinctive human nature in favor of the rational side. The artist creates sculptures and installations where the opposites organic/inorganic, natural/industrial live together, inviting the spectator to question human’s origins. Animal derivates become matter for a process of an ambiguous semiotic turn.
Rabbit ears, hides and furs, ox and pig bladders – treated with taxidermy – take on new and unexpected forms where nature dialogues with the industrial and architectural components coming from the productive process, such as wood, ceramic, polyurethane and synthetic resin. In 2016 Chiara Lecca was selected among the finalists of the XVII Cairo Prize and exhibited at Palazzo Reale, Milan. Her work was presented in various institutions in Italy and Europe: in 2019 she was artist in residence at MACRO Asilo in Rome and in 2018 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid. Solo exhibitions were held in institutions such as: Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza and Collezioni Comunali D’Arte – Palazzo D’Accursio, Bologna (2017), Ghisla Art Collection Foundation, Locarno (2016), Naturkundemuseum Ottoneum, Kassel (2015), Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo, Milan (2013), MAR – Museum of City Art, Ravenna (2010).
Chiara Lecca also took part in group exhibitions in these institutions: Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea “Vero Stoppioni”, Santa Sofia and Museo Civico Varoli, Cotignola (2019), Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo (2018), Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck (2017), Palazzo Reale, Milan (2016), Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau (2016), Museo Poldi Pezzoli and Gallerie d’Italia, Milan (2013), International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza (2012), Spazio Thetis, Venice (2011), PROGR Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern (2008). The artist has been collaborating with Galleria Fumagalli since 2008. In the very same year her solo exhibition “Del maiale non si butta via niente” was held at the gallery in Bergamo, followed in 2010 by the catalog “Quintoquarto” with texts by Martina Cavallarin and Valerio Dehò. The gallery also promoted the publication of the monograph “Quod Paret”, published on the occasion of her solo show at Naturkundemuseum Ottoneum, Kassel in 2015.
Works
Works
Press
Press
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
CHIARA LECCA
…del maiale non si butta niente
Opening 15 November 2008
18 November to 22 December 2008
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
CHIARA LECCA
…del maiale non si butta niente
Opening 15 November 2008
18 November to 22 December 2008
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Institutions
Institutions
