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2025-09-22
The exhibition unfolds as an instinctive flow, born from the urgent need to give form to an experience that traverses body, matter, and history. Creten’s works do more than inhabit space: they reveal its inherent instability, as if the ground itself was quickened by an invisible pulse. The title gestures toward this very condition, suggesting tremor as both a formal and existential principle, a subtle vibration that resonates within the material and within the viewer’s perception.
Central to the exhibition is the series Odore di Femmina, which explores the delicate tension between attraction and repulsion, desire and apprehension. By shaping clay – primordial, moist, fertile – Creten conjures flowers that are at once fragile and disquieting, capturing the paradox of impurity transformed into the sublime. In these works, sculpture functions as a ritual of transformation, where impermanence and renewal are inscribed in the gestures of molding, building, and letting collapse. Employing a metonymic language, the artist allows the flower to evoke the feminine, conceived as a space of desire, mystery, and sacredness. While the classical elegance of the forms and the meticulous craftsmanship of the petals attract the eye, it is their inherent fragility that imparts true force – a delicate equilibrium between radiance and transience.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2025
Alfonso Artiaco
Piazza dei Martiri 58
80121 Napoli
Italy
www.alfonsoartiaco.com
