Maria Cristina Carlini. Miami

New stage for the creativity of Maria Cristina Carlini, who, accepting the invitation of the city of Miami, has brought her monumental works to the attention of the public in Florida with several events that highlight not only her production but also her own personality as an artist.
Inaugurated on November 30 as part of the art show Sculpt Miami 2010 – a side-event of Art Basel Miami Beach – the exhibition goes ahead in full autonomy sustained by the excellent interest shown by art lovers and collectors who till December 5 have been packing the numerous appointments of the fair.
The exhibition is held in four prestigious locations. In the former exhibition park of Sculpt Miami in Wynwood art district are placed two imposing corten steel sculptures: Gran Via, wonderful alternating volumes along perpendicular and diagonal lines that play with space and void and La Vittoria di Samotracia (The winged Victory of Samothrace – about 3 metres high).
The renown Miami Dade College, the largest university in Florida, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its opening, hosts in its Miami International Sculpture Park Isole (Islands), a perfect marriage between the ductility of the clay and the solidity of the corten steel (cm 300x150x20).
Inside the luxuriant Miami Beach Botanical Garden the sculpture Mistero (Mystery) finds its ideal location and the birch trunks coming out from the corten steel elements find a true link to the surrounding setting (cm 350x170x200). At Coral Gables Museum stands Icaro (Icarus), whose pierced corten steel lightens its massive structure calling to mind the flight (cm 280x250x130).