Federico Branchetti and Fabio Iemmi. Opus in fieri

Federico Branchetti‘s project (Reggio Emilia, 1994), entitled Liminale, is developed in the first two rooms on the ground floor. On display is a selection of works created specifically for this project: from the large raw clay sculpture L’uomo del Fiume II, modeled within the museum spaces, to the simultaneous drawings, executed during individual train and car journeys, drawing non-stop throughout the entire journey.

In Branchetti’s poetics, the drawing, the plastic, the modelling of the human figure taken up in its various manifestations become justification for an attempt to analyse the grammar of sculpture: gravity, the weight that sinks the volumes, the tension between the space occupied and the masses of the sculpture itself are reasons for his artistic investigation.

Fabio Iemmi‘s project (Montecchio Emilia, 1952), entitled Metacantieri – Vibrazioni sonore della materia is set up in the last two rooms on the ground floor. A sequence of material wall art with unpublished works
and the installation Codici, textile works made on Gobelin and jacquard warps with titles in wool, linen, lurex.

Iemmi’s research relates to the conceptual and aesthetic dimension of matter. The techniques and materials he prefers – mother-of-pearl inert from semi-precious stones, metal powders, natural earths, plaster, Japanese paper, lacquers – can be assimilated to the surface apparatuses of  architecture, of which he reinterprets “leather” in a contemporary key, making use of consolidated practices such as wall painting, graffito, tearing. Living works, those of Fabio Iemmi, subject to metamorphosis even after their
creation, thanks to the transformations and degenerations of the elements that compose them.

For both Branchetti and Iemmi, matter becomes the guardian of evolving potential. Center and object dictates the timing of realization, but also the coordinates of the space in which we move and imagine.