EREDI BRANCUSI
Live and work in Cherasco, Italy

The Christmas tree has an international symbolic value and it means safety
from different points of view: home and family safety, safety deriving from
tradition and from what is “customary,” the safety inspired by shared
symbols of cultural and social identity.
The fact of being made of barbed wire, which is only recognizable at a close view, means the “deceptiveness” of everything and it represents a specific reference to very current “insecurity” feelings: the insecurity of both a laic and a religious culture (ours), menaced by the presence and the contamination of other cultures and religions broughtby migratory flows; the insecurity deriving from the ever increasing sight around ourselves of “symbols” which do not belong to us, which we don't recognize and which we live with anxiety; the fear of terrorism, which way of operating inherently makes our “houses” insecure as well; the insecurity coming from the weakening of family bonds and values.
— Eredi Brancusi

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Placentia Arte, Piacenza; 2001: Il Graffio, Bologna; 2000: Luigi Franco, Turin.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Last minute, Ex Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy; Sito del Corso, Villa dei Laghi, Parco de La Mandria, Turin; 2001: Le Tribù dell’arte, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; 2000: Vedere Voci, Luigi Franco, Turin; Ironic, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy; Le ombre della memoria, En Plein Air, Pinerolo, Italy; 1999: La casa, Mauro Nicoletti, Rome; Omaggi Oltraggi, Ciocca, Milan.




Illusion of safety, 2003. Mixed media, 2 m (h).
Courtesy Placentia Arte, Piacenza.

Illusion of safety, 2003. Mixed media, 2 m (h).
Courtesy Placentia Arte, Piacenza.