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Versione Italiana 

catalogue by Edizioni Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co.
with introduction by Achille Bonito Oliva
48 pages, 24 color illustrations, 30 black & white

7 March – 7 June 2006
Mon-Fri 11-19, closed Sundays and holidays; Saturday by appointment only


Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. is pleased to announce the exhibition of the Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin.
The artist will be in Milan for the opening reception on Tuesday 7 March at Via Pontaccio 19.

Saint Clair Cemin (1951, Cruz Alta, Brazil, lives and works in Paris and New York) is internationally renowned for his sculptural work, his exclusive focus since 1985. The early years of his career were marked by the interest of important institutions like the Stadtische Kunsthalle of Dusseldorf, the Whitney Biennial in New York and the Stadelelijk Museum of Amsterdam. In 1992 Saint Clair Cemin was invited to Documenta IX in Kassel. The years to follow have been filled with many exhibitions, including the creation of monumental works like the one for the Motorola headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois (“The Verbs”, bronze, 6 x 4.5m).
A professor at Columbia University in New York, he is often invited to give lectures at other universities in the United States, Canada, Portugal, Brazil and Mexico. He is presently working in Paris on a major sculpture project at the Maison de la Chasse et de la Nature.

The exhibition by Saint Clair Cemin at Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. is composed of eighteen new works in painted reflexed ceramic made by the artist in 2005 at the Santoriello workshop in Vietri sul Mare (Salerno). This group of works contains all the experience of the artist, displaying all the multiplicity and complexity of his approach. In the works “Red Siren” and “Black Siren” we see powerful evidence of the Gothic-Baroque taste typical of South America, drawn from the culture of Barcelona and Valencia. The violent struggle between solids and voids narrates the eternal conflict between the physical and the transcendent, revealed with elegant mastery in the work “Perception”. The plastic quality of the shaped, modeled material generates an atmosphere charged with symbolism, also Mediterranean in many ways, where Being emerges from matter, in an ancient world Saint Clair Cemin has captured and immobilized in “Titan” and “Gattolicismo”.

Saint Clair Cemin’s works are including in the world’s most important collections, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, Rooseum of Stockholm, Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Fond National d’Art Contemporain of Paris, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo of Monterry, and others.

His work can be seen in a major 360-page monograph edited by the American critic Richard Milazzo, published in 2005.

For this exhibition a catalogue has been published with an introductory text by Achille Bonito Oliva.

The artist will attend the opening.