At the Uffizi, Kiki Smith stars in the exhibition What I saw on the road.

From February 15 to June 2, 2019, the Uffizi Gallery presents What I saw on the road, a solo exhibition dedicated to Kiki Smith, one of the protagonists of contemporary art.
Kiki Smith, born in Nuremberg in 1954, is one of the protagonists of contemporary art, a militant feminist, present with her work in the most prestigious international institutions (from MoMA in New York to the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, from the Haus Esters Museum in Krefeld to the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona) and winner by acclamation of the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 with the installation Homespun Tales.

Kiki Smith combines traditional techniques (casting, terracotta, tapestry, etching) with the most sophisticated digital technology, and her themes draw on the visual sources of the Christian Middle Ages, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century proto-science, and certain surrealism, with results still capable of representing the obsessions, lacerations, and contradictions of humanity today.

The central and almost exclusive theme of his discourse has been until the entire 1990s corporeality, and in particular the female body in all its fragility, but also heroically capable of redemption and rebellion. More recently, the artist’s reflection has expanded to consider the entire relationship between man, nature and the cosmos: the resulting images have taken on the tones of a pacifying grace that can be a solution, an antidote in times of hatred and brutality. All of this can be felt in the almost animistic afflatus of some of the 12 jaquard tapestries in the exhibition, which (in the six rooms of the exhibition itinerary) will also be joined by a selection of sculptures.

The exhibition is curated by Eike Schmidt and Renata Pintus. For all information you can visit the official Uffizi website.

Pictured: Kiki Smith, Earth (2012; Pace Gallery)

At the Uffizi, Kiki Smith stars in the exhibition What I saw on the road.

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