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From October 20 to November 14, 2010 Mystic

Biodiversity exhibition by Miriam Secco
at the Civic Aquarium of Milan

The Civic Aquarium of Milan pleased to announce Biodiversity Mystic, solo exhibition Miriam Secco, by Nila Shabnam Bonetti. The young artist is formed between Milan and Brussels, where he explores an expressive language that moves with ease between ancient and traditional processing methods such as tapestry weaving, drawing in ink and paper mache masks for use in the course of action contemporary art as performances and installations, designed to stimulate the senses of visitors, actively and emotionally involved in his work. In Belgium, the artist explores his research moving towards an anthropological approach to art, the practice of art making itself a form of ritualization. The choice of white, which for years has dominated in the works of the artist, has a symbolic value, allows the fulfillment of a ritual of purification and transformation and continuous control of the chaos of inner nature and universal. White, the complexity of its lifetime, and its opposite, black, stimulate reflection on the meaning of life and death. These extreme poles will pull the strings of the exhibition project conceived specifically for the Aquarium. In such a place you can watch the performance's lounge, in the Sala Vitman during the vernissage, which marks the artist's characteristic figures, men with the fish head, also in the works installed in the wall exhibition on the ground floor (Do you like apple?, kosmonavt, Franciscans, Tropical Sertraline and Alprazolam, La Tigre Absence). The mask combines the essence of man and animal, hiding the identity of the individual who participates in the symbolic nature of the fish, revealing the characteristics filtered through his own personality. Also during the vernissage, the winter garden will welcome visitors to the show with dinner Bianca, inviting them to participate actively enjoying tastings of white foods whose recipes date back to the culinary tradition of the sixteenth century.
The Art of Miriam Secco brings questions about the meaning of life, and rediscover a spiritual dimension too often stifled by the consumerism of Western society. To against this approach that devalues \u200b\u200bthe worth of things and people, which calls for the waste, use disposable at the expense of the planet, the artist chose to use simple materials and recovery for the realization of its work (paper towels, surgical gloves, paper and cardboard packaging) with the aim of giving new meanings to objects, by converting function and giving new life to waste. Also in the winter garden, with the theme of simple materials, you can see on display the two tapestries blood and tears that remind us of the inseparable essence, spiritual and carnal, the human being.