Location: Alberto Di Castro, Piazza di Spagna 5, Rome
Co-hosted by Alberto Di Castro and Purdy Hicks Gallery
TIME FUTURE looks at how the past still impacts the work of contemporary practitioners, and how memory is one of the great creative triggers. The works in the exhibition, whether they were made five hundred years ago or yesterday, all reinvoke or reinvent memories and artistic practices.
Displayed alongside the treasures of Alberto Di Castro Gallery, established in 1878 in Rome, are the works of contemporary artists Pierre Bergian, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Susan Derges, Sidival Fila, Laila Tara H, Waqas Khan, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Alice Maher and Ciprian Mureşan.
In the words of curators Denise Di Castro and Siena Hicks: “The most exciting thing about letting living artists loose in a true antiquarian paradise, such as Alberto Di Castro’s, is not only how the stream of ideas and techniques have flowed down through history or how much artists have learned from earlier artists, but more importantly how artists throughout history have often broken rules to create something new.
In common with the historical works of art in Time Future, the exhibiting contemporary artists share an element of alchemy, taking a material or form and transforming it into another. In its simple essence, it is creativity’s sheer magic that takes us to a new place, a time future.”
As TS Eliot wrote in The Four Quartets: ‘Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future.’
