Daniela Sighicelli sculptor: a retrospective pays tribute to her in her hometown

From June 12 to July 17, 2022, a retrospective exhibition promoted by the Municipality of Rubiera in memory of Daniela Sighicelli will be held in the Monumental Complex of L’Ospitale in Rubiera (Reggio Emilia) in her hometown. Daniela Sighicelli - Sculptress, curated by Tiziana Giordano, was strongly desired by the municipal administration and the artist’s family to retrace the artistic career of Daniela Sighicelli, who died prematurely in 2018.

About fifty works, including sculptures and drawings, made since the 1980s, will be on display. Her works are in terracotta, bronze, sometimes even plaster, but her materials of choice were stone and marble, a material with which the sculpture La pace is also made, currently located in the inner courtyard of Palazzo Sacrati in Rubiera and created in 1981 by the artist in the town square, before the eyes of passers-by. Among his most frequently tackled themes are the body and the human figure, predominantly female, but also the animal world, according to a panic sentiment of nature that foreshadows highly topical issues.

“Admiring the large number of works in Daniela’s home,” writes the curator, "her personality emerges clearly and strongly, the devotion that day after day she has dedicated to sculpture, the need not to repudiate her cultural matrix and especially her roots, from which an image as authentic as hers can emerge. The works are in every corner of the house, in the studio, but also in the bedroom, in the kitchen, on the steps of the stairs, as if to testify how sculpture never abandoned her thinking, for Daniela there was no difference between art and life, work and everyday life, they were an inseparable whole. A woman who, it is clearly understood in her home, lived her adventure as a sculptor as a way of existence, with unlimited enthusiasm and a strenuous, artisan will to make, to build, to shape."

Born in Rubiera on March 7, 1953, Daniela Sighicelli began her training in Reggio Emilia in 1970, when she graduated as a teacher of ceramic art at the “G. Chierici” Institute; in 1971 she specialized in Advertising Graphics at the A. Panizzi. She continued in Carrara between 1978 and 1979, where she acquired the qualification of Marble Expert for sculpture and demodeling and the baccalaureate at the Liceo artistico, and in 1983 she obtained the license of the four-year period of sculpture, obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara with full marks and honors. His studies, also during these years, were accompanied by assiduous attendance at sculpture and foundry workshops with important local artists and artisans. Her experience as a teacher was also significant: it began in the 1980s in Carrara, where she conducted workshops as an expert ceramist, thanks to her work as a ceramic designer and glaze technician, carried out in various firms in the Reggio Emilia-Modena area; she continued with the chair of Plastic Disciplines at the Art Institute of Volterra and the “G. Chierici” Art Institute of Reggio Emilia. Numerous international sculpture exhibitions and symposia have collected the artist’s works, and even today public spaces welcome the creations he donated to the community.

The retrospective will be inaugurated on Sunday, June 12, at 5:30 p.m., in the presence of Emanuele Cavallaro (Mayor of the Municipality of Rubiera), Rita Boni (Rubiera Municipal Councillor for Culture), Tiziana Giordano (curator) and Claudia Sighicelli representing the family.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog published by Litostampa La Rapida with a text by Tiziana Giordano, a poem by the artist, a testimony by her sister Claudia, and photographs of the works taken by Vilma Bulla in the artist’s home and in her father’s home.

For more info: www.comune.rubiera.re.it

Hours: Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m., Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Free admission.

Image: Daniela Sighicelli, Ecstasy (1984; statuary marble, 54 x 21 x 24 cm)

Daniela Sighicelli sculptor: a retrospective pays tribute to her in her hometown

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