The Fabbrica Eos gallery presents, in its space at Viale Pasubio 8/a, from November 28, 2024, to January 11, 2025, the solo exhibition by Cracking Art titled CAOSMO – The Memory of Matter.
The exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of Cracking Art’s activity, taking a journey back to the origins of its artistic path. In fact, the programmatic manifesto of the movement was first presented in the spaces of the Fabbrica Eos gallery in December 1993, with its exhibition activity beginning in 1994.
The exhibition will feature some of the iconic sculptures made of regenerated and regenerable plastic that have characterized over 500 installations created throughout these years, bringing the collective to all five continents of the planet.
However, rather than a celebration of the past, this exhibition aims to present the transition to a series of new works that place an even greater focus on the concept of regeneration.
The artworks in the “Caosmo” series, displayed in a gallery for the first time, are made from material derived from the shredding of sculptures used in previous installations. This emphasizes that plastic, as Roland Barthes once wrote, is less a substance and more the very idea of its infinite transformation.
Chaos here does not so much signify disorder as the infinite speed with which any form dissipates the moment it arises. It is a void, not a nothingness, but a virtual space containing all possible particles and evoking all possible forms—forms that emerge only to immediately vanish, lacking consistency or reference. (G. Deleuze / F. Guattari, What is Philosophy?, 1991)
Thus, the particles of the sculptures, bearing the memory of their origins, take on unpredictable new directions in an attempt to restore order and rebuild a new cosmos through art, which, through its irrational processes, keeps us profoundly human.
Returning to Fabbrica Eos represents, for Cracking Art, a return to the origins of its universe.
