The Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute are proud to exhibit in their premises two works of Italian artists Maria Cristina Carlini: Verso l’infinito (Towards Infinity, 2010, Corten steel) and Danza (Dance, 2011, Corten steel and resin).Sculptor Maria Cristina Carlini’s works are parts of an innermost world that is also an innermost space, which they represent entirely, as the artist gives her vision of the world in relation with nature, from which she derives her artistic language and inspiration.
Her works are like the hint of the origin of the earth, as this sculpture-installation has the same cosmic dimension, with the use of internal and external spaces, without ideologies or dependencies, under a uniform and lucid thought; where infinite and finite identify themselves with life and death, and the space and time, as in a biological cycle.
Over the course of her career, Maria Cristina Carlini has achieved an intensive production. She has shown a great ability to develop ever new aesthetic experiences, working each time with new materials and satisfying the various needs arising from her ideas.
Starting from the 70s, her dedication to sculpture was emphasized in her ceaseless experimentation with traditional techniques and materials.
Clay introduces Carlini to the physicality of matter. The learning of ceramic techniques was the starting point from which she began to explore other materials, such as resin, concrete, corten steel, iron and wood. This initiation to manipulate matter is indeed a keystone in the evolution of her creative instinct.
Carlini moves from small to large. Most of her sculptures and all of her monuments start from a scale model that is like a creative seed, the starting point of the expression of a form.
Carlini talks with the materials she uses, and while she gradually explores new ones, her vocabulary changes accordingly.
Leading critics wrote of her, such as: Luciano Caramel, Claudio Cerritelli, Gillo Dorfles, Carlo Franza, Flaminio Gualdoni, Yakouba Konaté, Elena Pontiggia.