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Nicola Bolla- Sonata a Kreutzer

   

Nicola Bolla- Sonata a Kreutzer

2015 07 10  2015 08 23

Nicola Bolla- Sonata a Kreutzer

The exhibition Sonata a Kreutzer opens with a highly symbolic work: the wreck of an old grand piano emptied and filled with earth with emerging skulls and bones. The reference is to the short novel The Kreutzer Sonata  by Lev Tolstoj. Written in 1889, the novel narrates the story of a love ending in tragedy between a man and his wife, a pianist, killed because of her husband's mad jealousy.

From the flags at half-mast to the trench of weapons resting on the ground, not to mention the Vanitas, a theme very dear to Bolla, the images suggest a melancholic but not untimely atmosphere: decadence marries with glitter. Quite unusually, the reinvention of the work, i.e. the actual sculpture, is combined with real objects to suggest a more installation-based approach posing the problem of how to deal with and resolve space.


Nicola Bolla- Sonata a Kreutzer