TRACCE DI VITA

Koro Ihara

5 October - 7 December 2024

Opening on Saturday 11 October at 10.00 - 21.00

On Saturday 5 October, the FABER art gallery presents the solo exhibition Tracce di vita by Koro Ihara.

Tracce di vita project presents for the first time in Italy the intense research of the young, but already established, Japanese sculptor Koro Ihara, through monographic exhibitions, installations and talks. Koro Ihara's art narrates an exploratory journey that leads to a series of questions with ancestral references: from reflection on nature and the life cycle to the attempt, through the sculptural gesture, to bring out the cultural values that non-human organisms intrinsically possess. Thus in the Tracce di vita, the hottest topics in the global environmental debate, climate and geological change, sustainability, orientate, but do not exhaust, a study aimed at extrapolating a new idea of sculpture. Ihara's entire production, permeated by a rigorous conceptual coherence, can be conceived in several main series, to be understood as stages of the journey in the footsteps of life (fading-cycling-made-in-the-ground-dyeing-nested-booking-still-life); in each expressive cycle, the tracks to be followed change and, consequently, the materials to be used change. The Japanese sculptor maintains a visceral relationship with the elements, probing and exploiting their varied potential, mixing substances of all kinds in daring experiments. While using an extensive range of materials, from the most canonical such as metals, silk, terracotta and ceramics, to organic, biological or living ones, and using traditional and experimental techniques, Koro Ihara's analysis presents itself as a unified observation of nature, life, the autonomy and perfection of evolutionary paths and the destabilising intervention of man. In this way, the works, pervaded by latent empiricism combined with rigorous technical control, manifest an aesthetic that is as primordial as it is poetic and refined, enhancing the underlying investigation.

Curated by Cristian Porretta

5 October to 7 December 2024

galleria d'arte FABER

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-19:00 Sunday by appointment

via dei Banchi Vecchi 31, 00186 Rome tel +39 06 68808624