Sculpture
Totem
Totem
The feminine memory is at the centre of Erietta Vordoni’s explorations. In her own mind she finds allusions to the ancient world. Her Totems, objects which spread themselves in space souls, come to life in the innumerable pictures which mark them, and identify themselves with the endless episodes for personal history. They are not isolated moments, but moments of a collective history, words in an integral discourse.
Maria Gracia Tolomeo
Art Historian
In Vordoni’s work we recall Byzantine art and sense the concept of the icon “not made by human hands” created not by mortal being but by the exercise of divine power”.
Ludovico Pratesi
Art Historian
Vordoni’s work nourished by her own poetical and metaphysical reflections eloquently evoke life’s profundities. Life in its infinite expressions with its plurality of forms, in its evanescent moments.
Pierre Chaigneau
Ex-Curator of the Nice Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, France
Totems as landmarks, as “Hermae” marking the entrance into homes and temples, as boundaries on the course towards any destination, are also symbols of the occupation of space, which would otherwise have had no owner and therefore no one to defend it. The concept of occupation-protection, of the marking of boundaries, of the leaving of traces, is the very opposite of excessive consumption without transmutation of energy. In the work of Vordoni, the combination of the archetypal symbol of demarcation with its crowning by a mysterious figure, recalls the sense of the transcendental in Byzantine art, the idea of the “icon”, blended with the ancient tradition of statue-making.
Emmy Varouxaki
Art Historian
Erietta Vordoni’ art is the landing-place in a spot not defined but securely indicated by the desire not to die. Achille Bonito Oliva Critic and Historian of Contemporary Art. “Vordoni’s work almost seems to approach a mystical vision which simultaneously retains a symbolic dimension linked to the material and physical reality of the body without forgetting that of the work of art”. Dan Cameron Art Curator, New Museum of Modern Art, New York Her work is a hymn to the fragility of touch and the aestheticism of painting. She does not paint descriptions and narratives, but spiritual conditions, feelings and impressions. She speaks about the immateriality of life, the beauty of ephemerality and the value of intimacy. A work that invite us to engage in meditation.
Florent Bex
Honorary Director of the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium
