In one of the rooms of the Museo del Tessuto e del Costume, whose reopening is scheduled for next days after more than four years of closure, Adelaide Cioni (Bologna, 1976) inserts herself with an intervention that playfully dialogues with the heritage housed within the exhibition venue. From the very beginning, the artist has shown a particular attraction for fabric, employed to create works of strong visual impact and, at the same time, endowed with great formal essentiality. Teatrino is the title of the installation: these are three costumes made by the artist for a series of performances held on the occasion of the prestigious solo exhibition that the Mimosa House exhibition space, to London, recently dedicated to her. The costumes, part of a research on abstract decorative motifs that the artist conducts from years, will be displayed inside wooden showcases made with the collaboration of Spoleto artisan Leonardo Sacaramucci: the idea is to trace the layout of the Textile and Costume Museum, which presents clothes stored inside display cases, blending with the collection and at the same time being fully recognizable. The showcases, in fact, will not feature the traditional glass, but will be lined from a series of fabrics painted by the artist, thus creating an ideal habitat for the costumes.
Adelaide Cioni is linked to the Umbrian territory from a special relationship: after having been in residence at Mahler & LeWitt Studios and after having resided for a few years to Bevagna, the artist chose Spoleto as the place to live and work. Teatrino thus represents a tribute from by Cioni to her new city and to the Museo del Tessuto e del Costume.

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