TIME FUTURE looks at how the past still impacts the work of contemporary practitioners, and how memory is one of the great creative triggers. The works in the exhibition, whether they were made five hundred years ago or yesterday, all share a desire to reinvoke or reinvent memories and artistic practices.
Displayed alongside the treasures of Alberto Di Castro Gallery, established in 1878 in Rome are the works of
contemporary artists Pierre Bergian, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Susan Derges, Sidival Fila, Laila Tara H, Waqas Khan, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Alice Maher and Ciprian Mureşan.
The living artists in this exhibition are from Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Pakistan and
Romania, and as with the historical works in the exhibition there is an element of alchemy about them all. They take a material or form and change it into another. In its simple essence, it is creativity’s sheer magic that takes us to a new place, a time future.”
As TS Eliot wrote in The Four Quartets: ‘Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future.
Co-hosted by Alberto Di Castro and Purdy Hicks Gallery
Curated by Denise Di Castro and Siena Hicks
Catalogue by Silvana Editoriale
