The Pastificio Cerere Foundation and Z2O Gallery Sara Zanin are glad to welcome for the first time the Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen (Lisalmi, Finland,1952), in a double solo within their two locations in Rome.
Famous worldwide for her environmental projects and her huge installations realized by using simple materials such as clothes and paper, Kaarina Kaikkonen faces her first solo in Rome proposing a big installation in the striking space of Pastificio Cerere. She mainly makes use of shirts and second-hand jackets of various colours and shapes, picked up in the Capital markets. Through her skilful hands those clothes reshape and interpret the external architecture of the yard and the internal spaces of Pastificio Cerere, in a suggestive site-specific project. The outside installation regards the upper part of the yard and actually “wraps” stairs and balconies creating a simple and unique scene able to evoke the old work places. Shirts, tied each other through their sleeves, recall the ancient collective production and take back the folk spirit of San Lorenzo’s quarter.
