The great sculpture returns to the Stelline Foundation with the exhibition Maria Cristina Carlini The strength of ideas, curated by Vittoria Coen. It is a new prestigious solo exhibition presented in the Collector's Room and in the suggestive Cloister of the Magnolia: from 5 May to 12 June 2022 in the interior spaces and until 30 September outside, monumental sculptures together with small and large works give life to an exhibition that stems from the fluidity of the artist's thought and brings together numerous unpublished works in a crescendo of emotions.

We are very happy to host this personal exhibition of the sculptress Maria Cristina Carlini - underlines the president of the Stelline Foundation PierCarla Delpiano - because sculpture is the art form that best allows us to express the full potential of our headquarters, allowing a dialogue between different exhibition spaces. In fact, Carlini's works are exhibited in the Collector's Room and, open air, in the suggestive Cloister of the Magnolia ».

The selection of works exhibited expresses the strength and tenacity of the artist's path and of his ideas with which he shapes matter, but also space and time and transforms them into universal sculpture, giving shape, as the curator states, to magic of a score aimed at creating a unique concert of cosmic vibrations ». Maria Cristina Carlini deepens her bond with the earth and natural materials, archaic symbols capable of arousing ancestral memories that are often dormant, making individual and collective memory a key point in her poetics.

The exhibition itinerary opens with Scudi, an installation from 1998 that has never been exhibited and consists of three high iron poles interrupted by polychrome modules that take on an intimate and ancient totemic value.