Daniel Spoerri's Bronze Age at Spoleto Festival

Daniel Spoerri's exhibition 'Bronze Age' at the Ex Museo Civico in Spoleto, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, runs until August 31, 2016, as part of the Festival dei Due Mondi. The show features bronze sculptures created between 2005 and 2016, including 'Santo Grappa' (1970), the artist's first bronze work, which he made to exorcise his alcohol addiction. Spoerri, born in Galati, Romania in 1930, uses assemblage and found objects from flea markets to create enigmatic works that challenge definitions and direct attention to overlooked aspects of everyday life. The sculptures refuse absolute meanings, serving as 'starters' for new orientations rather than endpoints. The exhibition includes pieces like 'La ragazza cefalopode col piede d'elefante', 'Unicorni', and 'Il Palombaro'. Spoerri's practice continues the Duchampian ready-made tradition and Surrealist object theory, emphasizing process and creating new relationships between art and life.