A talk with the artist: ruby onyinyechi amanze

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia

A talk with the artist

HOW TO BE ENOUGH, a project by ruby onyinyechi amanze for the Collezione Maramotti.
Artist in conversation with Sara Piccinini, Director Collezione Maramotti.

For her first solo exhibition in Italy, ruby onyinyechi amanze has conceived a new multidimensional drawing for the Collection’s Pattern Room, at the Collezione Maramotti, working on a monumental scale she has never previously explored. The work includes 15 sheets of paper that extend over the entire height and width of the room’s long central wall, creating a vast contemporary “fresco on paper”.

Born in Nigeria, raised in the United Kingdom and currently based in Philadelphia and New York, amanze calls many places home. To her, space is a physical, architectural reality, but also a mental, emotional, shifting one in which different planes emerge and overlap, their boundaries blurred.
Space, here, is not identified with a specific location, but rather with fluid, layered scenarios, brimming with images. Like the viewer, the artist enters into a relationship with these worlds: sometimes discovering, to her surprise, that she is an integral part of them, fully immersed; or sometimes standing like an outside observer of whatever unfolds like a diorama before her eyes and ours.

Please note

• This is a live, online talk on the Zoom platform.
• The talk is in English and last approx. 45 minutes. It is followed by a short question and answer session.
• Indicated time refers to CEST (Central European Summer Time).
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Photo credits: ruby onyinyechi amanze, HOW TO BE ENOUGH | credit: ruby onyinyechi amanze | courtesy: Collezione Maramotti, the artist