Maria Cristina Carlini. Materie viventi
The exhibition “Materie viventi” presents Maria Cristina Carlini’s artistic research through two monumental works, Bosco (2012) and Filemone e Bauci (2021), installed in the Courtyard of Honour and the Garden of Palazzo Reale. It establishes a dialogue between sculpture, architecture, and open space, offering visitors a journey that invites reflection on the relationship between nature, memory, and transformation.
For over fifty years, Carlini has developed a practice based on the use of materials such as iron, Corten steel, stoneware, paper, and reclaimed wood, which she revitalizes through essential and highly evocative forms. In her works, matter retains the traces of time and becomes a custodian of both individual and collective histories.
Created within the framework of SUART 2026 (Sustainable ART), an international conference dedicated to the relationship between art, culture, and sustainability, the exhibition highlights how the theme of sustainability has always permeated the artist’s work—not as a theoretical premise, but as a concrete practice of listening, reuse, and transformation of matter. The works thus become places of encounter between past and present, nature and culture, inviting the public to reflect on the value of regeneration and responsibility toward the world around us.
