There is something truly peaceful and soothing in letting our gaze flow across the landscape; both breathtaking and calming at the same time, it evokes a presence of mind and connects one with memories and history of the place. “The landscape is the end of the gaze. It’s where the gaze goes to die,” said the Italian artist Vittorio Corsini, as his artistic practice is turned towards sculptures and installations inhabiting public places and essentially giving a tour of the local area. The landscape becomes a part of his works, as the viewer combines the impact of both the placed artistic piece and the surroundings.
There’s more to the landscape than meets the eye, and Corsini’s public installations are often set to reveal what lies beneath the physical realm. Going back to natural shapes, he uses various materials like steel and blown glass, as well as everyday objects in constructing bodies of only essential outlines, emphasizing the fragility or toughness of the material. Focused on what permeates the lives of people in an area, he instills his pieces with the history and memories of the very inhabitants of the place he builds his installations in. His Who’s talking? public art in Luicciana, Italy, is a good example of his practice; combining a street lamp and a seat, Corsini created a spot where people can admire the beautiful landscape surrounding them, while listening to the tales distinctly tied to the small town. The stories told by the inhabitants of Luicciana were previously recorded on the artist’s initiation, and playing them on the streetlamp’s loudspeaker system allows the viewers to connect with the environment.
More than just the landscape, Vittorio Corsini’s work depicts home in many of his pieces as another aspect of daily life and its dynamic. Carrying on the relationship with the world from his outdoors installations and sculptures, living space becomes a place in which the individuals recognize each other, existing and passing through the same space. Much like with the landscapes, a close relationship is formed between the inhabitants of the closed area, in this case a home, connecting memories of the individuals with the current physical realm. His recent works also represent places of worship, merging architecture and symbolism as the internal space is represented only by its ground plans, furthering the link between community’s spirit and social form.
With over twenty years of artistic creation behind him, Vittorio Corsini was born in 1956 and has made some astonishing works both for outdoors and exhibition display. His pieces have been exhibited widely across Italy and Europe, placing urban works since the nineties in courtyards, gardens, squares, as well as finding their way to museums and collections. His approach to the concept of living and sharing a connection with the environment and its history has given us some truly amazing public installations, allowing us to see the landscape as he does: not just as a physical territory, but as a place of memories and shared experiences.
The artist is represented by Gazelli Art House.
Featured image: Vittorio Corsini – Movimento, 2013. Photo credits vittoriocorsini.com.
All images used for illustrative purposes only.
Year | Exhibition Title | Museum/Gallery | Solo/Group |
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2015 | Il Peso del Carrello a Altre Sotrie | Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta | Solo |
2015 | Synchronicity | Museo di Palazzo Pretorio, Prato | Group |
2015 | The wolf and the tiger | Palazzo della permanente, Milano. | Group |
2015 | Untitled | Bocconi Art Gallery 5a ed., Università Bocconi. Milano | Group |
2015 | Icastica 2015 | Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo. | Group |
2014 | Reaching the Landscape | Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Italy | Solo |
2014 | Start14 | chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca. | Group |
2013 | Once Upon a Time | Gazelli Art House, London | Solo |
2013 | Incipit Vita Nova | The Municipality of Livorno in collaboration with the Association React, Fortezza Nuova, Italy | Solo |
2013 | La seduzione del Monocromo | Museo Civicodei Bretti e degli Enotri, Cosenza. | Group |
2013 | Sospensioni | Biblioteca Mozzi Borgetti, Macerata | Group |
2013 | Andata e Ricordo - souvenire de voyage | Mart, Rovereto | Group |
2013 | Sculpture! Make You Dream | Art Center, Seoul | Group |
2013 | Barzagli-Corsini-Savini | Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze | Group |
2013 | Oltre il Giardino | Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia | Group |
2013 | Sispensioni | Biblioteca Mozzi Borgetti, Macerata | Group |
2013 | Sculpture! Make You Dream | Art Center, Seoul | Group |
2013 | There and Again. Souvenir de Voyage | Mart, Rovereto, Italy | Group |
2013 | Beyond the Garden, Tribute to Piero Porcinai | Pistoia, Palazzo Fabroni and Giardino delle Farfalle, Italy | Group |
2013 | INCIPIT VITA NOVA | Fortezza Nuova, Livorno | Solo |
2012 | Tra voci, carte, voci e notturni | Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma | Solo |
2012 | Tra voci, carte, rovi e notturni | Galleria Civica di Modena, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena | Solo |
2012 | La pittura esercizio o libertà? | Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma | Group |
2012 | Italian do it better | 50 St James’s Street, London | Group |
2012 | Let There Be Light | Gazelli Art House, London | Group |
2012 | Meriggio a Carignano | Villa al Console , Lucca | Group |
2012 | muro di china | casa Menzio, Torino | Group |
2011 | Qualcosa Accadde | Fortino, Forte dei Marmi, Italy | Solo |
2011 | LA COSTOLA DELLE COSE | Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Roma. | Solo |
2011 | Xenia--roma | Museo MACRO, Rome, Italy | Solo |
2011 | Pittura Concetto Materia | Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma | Group |
2011 | Malmaison | Corsoveneziaotto, Milan, Italy | Group |
2010 | Macrowall – eighties are back | Museo MACRO, Rome, Italy | Solo |
2010 | Esercizio 1 | Corsoveneziaotto Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy | Solo |
2010 | Premio Terra | Tempio di Adriano, Rome, Italy | Group |
2010 | Scultura del XXI secolo | Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, Italy | Group |
2010 | Niente da vedere tutto da vivere | Istituto del marmo Pietro Tacca, Carrara, Italy | Group |
2009 | Orange mood, outsider project | Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze. | Solo |
2009 | Parma#33 | Italy | Solo |
2008 | Walkabout | Museo Oratorio di Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna, Italy | Solo |
2008 | Codice rosso | Fondazione Lazzareschi, Porcari (Lucca). | Solo |
2008 | Uomini, show of the permanent work | Ospedale di Campostaggia, Poggibonsi (Siena). | Solo |
2008 | Experimenta | Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome, Italy | Group |
2008 | Premio Michetta | Museo di Palazzo San Domenico, Francavilla a Mare, Italy | Group |
2008 | Yalos | Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy | Group |
2008 | Codice Rosso | Milan, Lucca, Italy | Solo |
2008 | Ospedale di Capostaggia | Poggibonsi, Siena, Italy 2007 | Solo |
2008 | Chi mi parla? | Cantagallo, Prato, Italy | Solo |
2007 | GOD Save THE PEOPLE | Claudio Poleschi arte contemporanea, Lucca. | Solo |
2007 | Emotional Landscapes | Fri---Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, France | Group |
2007 | L'abbraccio, Pink marble, trees, vegetables | Town of San Casciano. | Solo |
2007 | Chi mi parla?,inox-lamp-talking voices | Town of Cantagallo. | Solo |
2006 | Su carta | Vertigo Gallery, Cosenza. | Solo |
2006 | Walk-in | Alessandro Bagnai Gallery, Firenze. | Group |
2006 | NERVE | Hyunnart studio, Roma. | Group |
2005 | I have a head 2 | Artra Gallery, Milan | Solo |
2005 | Paesaggi domestici | (with Maria Dompè) Under Studio, Roma | Solo |
2005 | Le forme del coltello | Palazzo dei Vicari, Scarperia. | Group |
2004 | Mosca cieca | Salone Villa Romana, Firenze | Solo |
2004 | Permanent Collection | Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato. | Group |
2004 | L'arte dei ciliegi, (a tribute to Anton Cechov) | Vertigo - International center for culture and visual arts, Cosenza. | Group |
2004 | Le parole scaldano, glass-inox-water | Town of Quarrata. | Solo |
2003 | Il palazzo delle liberta | Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena. | Group |
2003 | Sonde | Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia. | Group |
2003 | Uscita Pistoia | Studio Alleruzzo, Pistoia. | Group |
2002 | ALLELUJA | Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy | Solo |
2002 | Alto volume corporale | Palazzo Bice Piacentini Contemporary Art Center, San Benedetto del Tronto. | Group |
2002 | Continuita'. Arte in Toscana, 1968/1989 | Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia. | Group |
2002 | Continuita'. Arte in Toscana,1990/2000 | Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato. | Group |
2002 | Materia d'arte. Opere degli ultimi decenni dalle collezioni della GAM | Modern Art Gallery, Bologna | Group |
2002 | Alba | Peccioli, Pisa, Italy | Solo |
2001 | Abitanti | Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia | Group |
2000 | Futurama | Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato. | Group |
2000 | Favole | Contemporary Art Museum, Citta' Sant'Angelo (PE). | Group |
1999 | La Casa dei Lumicini | La cappella, Lucca. | Solo |
1999 | Spazio Aperto | Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy | Solo |
1999 | Best Sellers (libri d'artista) | Libreria Palomar, Bari. | Group |
1999 | Opere in forma di libro | Museo Virgiliano, Pietole (Mantova). | Group |
1999 | Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue | Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno. | Group |
1998 | Complementi d’arredo | Palazzo Bicherasio, Torino | Solo |
1998 | Casa Aperta 1 | Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa. | Solo |
1998 | Corpo fragile | ex ospedale S. Niccolò, padiglione Conolly, Siena. | Solo |
1998 | Dress | Esso Gallery, New York. | Solo |
1998 | Omaggio a Giovanni Caselli | Santa Maria della Scala, Siena | Group |
1998 | Omaggio a Giovanni Caselli | Italian institute of Culture, Paris; Italian | Group |
1998 | Omaggio a Giovanni Caselli | Italian Institute of Culture, Londra; | Group |
1998 | Omaggio a Giovanni Caselli | Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata. | Group |
1998 | Au Rendez-vous des amis (identita' e opera) | Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato. | Group |
1997 | Luce gialla | Galleria Artra, Milano. | Solo |
1997 | Da costa a costa | ACP Galerie, Salzburg | Solo |
1997 | Premio Umberto Mastroianni, II edizione | Regione Piemonte, Torino. | Group |
1996 | Martiri e santi | L'Attico Gallery, Roma. | Group |
1995 | Vittorio Corsini | Galleria Corraini, Mantova. | Solo |
1995 | Cortile | Peccioli, Pisa, Italy | Solo |
1995 | Fonte | Peccioli, Pisa, Italy | Solo |
1994 | Animali domestici | Galleria Cardi, Milano. | Solo |
1992 | Vittorio Corsini | Galleria Cardi, Milano. | Solo |
1991 | Vittorio Corsini | Galleria L’Attico, Roma. | Solo |
1991 | Ritorno al mare | Galleria Pino Pascali, Polignano a mare. | Solo |
1990 | Romanza | Pontassieve, Florence, Italy | Solo |
1989 | Vittorio Corsini | Galleria L’Attico, Roma. | Solo |
1989 | Vittorio Corsini | Galleria Artra, Milano. | Solo |