Pastificio Cerere Foundation presents the personal show by Claire Fontaine entitled La Chiave, curated by Marcello Smarrelli. An ideal prosecution of the themes described within the manifesto for the second appointment of the 2012 edition of Postcard from…
Claire Fontaine is a collective of artists born in Paris, in 2004, named after a famous French brand of notebooks and it defines itself as a “ready-made artist”, using the third person feminine singular. On the same wave-length of Marcel Duchamp’s lesson –the first who raised ordinary objects to the dignity of art- the collective uses different media, straying from the land of art to contemporary visual culture and moving through a pseudo anonymous area, which denies or contradicts principles such as personal ability, authority and originality. Claire Fontaine’s research is based upon the constant engagement employed to monitor contemporary culture and politics. It uses Art as a device sensitive to the detection and analysis of sociopolitical subjects which get herself worried, among which the study of the communization of private spaces stand out: an element binding the poetics of the artist to Pastificio Cerere’s history.
The project is presented simultaneously with the exhibition at the T293 gallery, at Via dei Leutari 32 in Rome, open to the public from March 17th, day of the inauguration, until May 15th 2012.
