Selene Frosini Studio

Location CENTRO

Sculpture

I was born in Pontedera (PI), and at the age of 10, I moved to Carrara due to family reasons. There, I graduated from the Art High School and then continued my studies in Florence, where I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture section. Certainly an unusual choice, but it allowed me to live and experience a fascinating and cosmopolitan city. After finishing my studies and returning to Carrara, I deepened my sculptural technique of marble working by specializing on the job and working for national and international artists at the Michelangelo Art Studios. Artists of the caliber of Vanessa Beecroft, Abdel Abdessemed, Jan Fabre, Koen Vanmekelen, and many others. At the same time, I pursued my personal artistic path, constantly fascinated by marble, a material so elegant and eternal, making it malleable and sometimes pushing its limits. Over the years, I have participated in group exhibitions and competitions: in 2016, my first solo exhibition titled “STILL” at the Tekè Gallery in Carrara. Alongside my exhibition experience, I have traveled with my art participating in symposia both in Italy and abroad (Germany, Belgium, Egypt, Malaysia...). In 2022, a new video mapping project with videomaker Andrea Bartalini took shape and was presented at the Con-Vivere festival in Carrara at the Estenzioni Oltre Lo Spazio exhibition space. In 2023, my second solo show “Le Forme del Vuoto” (The Shapes of the Void) took place at the Gipsoteca di Porta Romana in Florence, and I won the Silver Prize at the 6th LihPao Sculpture Bienal Award in Taipei. I live and work in Carrara.

There is a world, a dimension inside each of us where our truest bonds and deepest passions mix, where the feelings that shape and define us reside. These feelings distinguish us from one another even more than our image, our aesthetics, which are nothing but a mask, the bark of what we really are. A place–non-place in matter where we find connection with others, with nature, and with the outside world. Where we are one and everything at the same time. Every fragment, every flake, every stone represents for me that “small” world, wrapped like a shell in the matter in which it moves and evolves. A “heart” articulated inside the block between voids and solids, between lights and shadows, where it is possible to see with the eyes the sturdy fragility of its form. A glimpse of the underground where the “bonds” of matter are articulated and intertwined. I use waste marble for my works. Marble destined to be discarded, to become dust, marble recovered from industrial processes, marble that is “useless” and destined to be scrapped. But is everything we discard, everything on the margins, really to be eliminated? Or could it perhaps contain something unexpected and unique that is worth discovering?

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Selene Frosini