An exhibition in Prato where some soft sculptures set the rhythm between presence and absence

The exhibition "Puzzle" by Daniela De Lorenzo is on view at Lottozero Kunsthalle in Prato, curated by Alessandra Tempesti and supported by Toscanaincontemporanea 2025. The show features felt sculptures and photographic prints on cotton paper, exploring the fragmentation and recomposition of the subject-object relationship through soft sculpture. De Lorenzo creates felt casts of her own body, using the material's technological and mechanical properties to produce a segmented high-relief work that follows an irregular, uncertain musical rhythm. The pieces appear and disappear against a monochrome background, evoking classical friezes and challenging natural anatomical laws. A photographic series dedicated to Cosmè Tura's "Madonna dello Zodiaco" (1459-1463) further extends her investigation into perception and the gaze.

This exhibition matters because it continues Lottozero's dedicated series on soft sculpture, a medium that interrogates the boundaries between presence and absence, self and object. De Lorenzo's work, rooted in the phenomenology of perception and her participation in the 1988 Venice Biennale, offers a contemporary meditation on corporeality and self-representation. By transforming felt into something akin to marble and skin, she bridges classical art historical references with contemporary material experimentation, contributing to ongoing dialogues about the body in visual art.