Over the course of her career from the 1970s until today, sculptress Maria Cristina Carlini’s (Varese, 1942) intense production has included a great capacity for developing new aesthetic experiences, whether using ancient or modern materials. Her profound passion for materials has led her to investigate their intrinsic characteristics, the history of their human use over the centuries, their possible interactions with other substances and environments, and the way they behave over the course of time.
Carlini’s art generates an interaction between past, present and future, and her inspiration embraces myth and history. Her artistic awareness is intensified by the process of doing, which is simultaneously introspective and expansive, directed towards the emergence of the symbolic, but also projected into the configuration of future presences.

Contents

Maria Cristina Carlini. The Sensation of the Eternal in the Gravity of Matter
Chiara Gatti

Symbols of an Origin
Paolo Campiglio

Sculpture Has No Gender. Maria Cristina Carlini at the Francesco Messina Studio Museum
Maria Fratelli

Maria Cristina Carlini. Sculpture: Myth and Monument
Raffaella Resch

Works

Biography