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New projects by Marta Pierobon and Brognon Rollin

Saturday, April 20 2024 MoRE - Museum of refused and unrealised art projects presents two new unrealised artworks. During his first twelve years, MoRE acquired projects from international contemporary artists, that opened their personal archives and shared their unrealised ideas with the public.
The new acquisitions will be on-line by today at moremuseum.org, two projects donated by Marta Pierobo and Brognon Rollin

Marta Pierobon (Brescia, 1979) donated to the museum the unrealized project CLAYING A long-term relationship.
The unrealized work by Marta Pierobon, born in Brescia in 1979, unfolds as a ten-day artistic performance where clay plays a central role in delving into the concept of space through "performative sculpture." Utilizing clay as her primary medium, Pierobon sculpts not just the space but also a series of metamorphosed characters and objects that enliven an environment teeming with symbolism and evocation. Through deliberate gestures and adept handling of the clay, the artist weaves a narrative that prompts viewers to engage actively, reshaping segments of the performative space by employing clay to craft fleeting figures, images, and sculptures that both materialize and disintegrate, thus molding and reshaping the space.
The performance appears to evolve into a ritual, enhanced by a collection of costumes conceived by the artist herself, actively engaging the audience. This transformation turns the setting into a dynamic tableau vivant, a continually shifting scene where artist and audience coalesce as co-authors of the artistic endeavor. Within this context, space unveils its dynamic and active essence, assuming a pivotal role in the transformative journey of the artwork. The piece encourages a multifaceted reflection on space as a physical, mental, and emotional realm, spotlighting the intricate interplay between the individual, art, and spatial environment. Moreover, it seeks to exalt clay as a natural element intimately connected to the artist's sculptural practice and to the earth.

David Brognon (Messancy - Belgium, 1978) and Stéphanie Rollin (Luxembourg, 1980) work with raw, often marginal social material where the recurrent themes are confinement, expectation and control. They donated to MoRE museum illuminé / Cielo non illuminato, a project that consists of the faithful reproduction of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure's cyanometer on the internal walls of the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Brognon Rollin project originates from the idea of making the mountain disappear, at the same time offering a visual reference to the drivers who pass through the tunnel, by indicating the approaching end of the tunnel. The work grows from an actual fact: Stéphanie Rollin suffers from claustrophobia and every crossing of the tunnel is a painful experience for her, made a little more bearable thanks to long conversations with David Brognon.
Ciel illuminé / Cielo non illuminato is a precise translation of an historical fact, filtered through a personal experience that transforms it into a poetic gesture.