The first Italian solo show of Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui (Zaragoza, 1972) opens Thursday 10 November at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome. The show, with free entrance and open until 7 January 2012, is part of a yearly programme of activities organised by Vincenzo de Bellis, curator in residence at the foundation for 2011. Lara Almarcegui’s show includes two distinct and complex projects, made especially for this exhibition. The two works represent the elaboration of a more basic project shown in 2010 in Vienna. Although different from one another, both works investigate the city of Rome, highlighting the artist’s interest in the relation between architecture and urban context, and between what happens on the streets and inside the exhibition spaces.
Lara Almarcegui is also the fourth protagonist of Postcard from…, the project promoted by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and developed by Marcello Smarrelli, to bring art into the urban context. Lara Almarcegui’s poster is an ideal continuation of the Guide to Wastelands of the River Tevere, 12 Empty Spaces Await the 2020 Rome Olympics project, and shows one of the images of her research. Temporarily shown on advertising hoardings, the poster represents the natural conceptual extension of the artist’s research, underlining the importance of preserving and protecting those public spaces waiting to be used.
