DarioTironi e Koji Yoshida.
The Museum of Casole d’Elsa re-opens its halls with a renewed arrangement,extended by the new acquisitions.
On this occasion, we are pleased to host the innovative sculptures by two young artists of a promising future, Dario Tironi and Koji Yoshida.
The coexistence of the museum’s endowment with contemporary art works is allowed by their extreme actuality and by their message.
The Museum’s proposal is to place in its rooms, which host extraordinary antique art works, contemporary sculptures.
A courageous and fascinating operation,of a strong visual and conceptual impact, strictly relating two distant époques.
The wonder, the elegance of the past times, compare to completely different aesthetic values of today, not less harmonic and seductive.
An initiative in cooperation with SienAmbiente s.p.a., a firm which is constantly hired in the environment preservation: an important message about how can recycling become Art.
Piero Pii
Mayor of Casole d'Elsa
DarioTironi e Koji Yoshida.
The Museum of Casole d’Elsa re-opens its halls with a renewed arrangement,extended by the new acquisitions.
On this occasion, we are pleased to host the innovative sculptures by two young artists of a promising future, Dario Tironi and Koji Yoshida.
The coexistence of the museum’s endowment with contemporary art works is allowed by their extreme actuality and by their message.
The Museum’s proposal is to place in its rooms, which host extraordinary antique art works, contemporary sculptures.
A courageous and fascinating operation,of a strong visual and conceptual impact, strictly relating two distant époques.
The wonder, the elegance of the past times, compare to completely different aesthetic values of today, not less harmonic and seductive.
An initiative in cooperation with SienAmbiente s.p.a., a firm which is constantly hired in the environment preservation: an important message about how can recycling become Art.
Piero Pii
Mayor of Casole d'Elsa
DarioTironi e Koji Yoshida, selectioned artists Special Prize at Arte Laguna 2009.
The sculptures presented by the Museum of Casole d’Elsa, in cooperatuion with Galleria Gagliardi in San Gimignano, are a seducing meeting of Arts, in which present and past annul themselves, letting the constants of the creative genius emerge.
These works’ peculiarities are their grace and harmony, the perfect definition of bodies which are made in waste products instead of bronze, marble or polychrome wood.
Dario Tironi and Koji Yoshida make sculptures of these dropouts. A work of painstaking restoration, cataloguing objects, functions, forms, colours, materials and then revive them, recycled in works of art. This is how the sculptures of these two young artists come to life, figures that at first glance, may seem ingenious and imaginative sculptures in bright colours, clever and playful adult toys, unusual works as a composition of the famous game of LEGO. Made with the codes of our era, they are testimony and complaint, returning the image of our civilization: we are what we eat, from morning to night our single need is accompanied by an envelope, packaging, food and objects that, once we have been satisfied by, we want to throw and refuse. Sculptures made from things: observing them, each one of us can recognize an object or its part in his life possessed or used.
The human being takes possession of the objects that he creates, and he feeds and substitutes from them, the bionic man is not science fiction, it is already part of our very near future, and this surely will change the perception of man andhis nature and feelings as well. Theworks of Dario Tironi and Koji Yoshida are sculptures but also entities that, motionless, with their objective reality, want to lead us to reflection.
