The collaboration between NH Collection Torino Piazza Carlina and Galleria Franco Noero continues with several sculptures by Sam Falls on display in the inner courtyard.

★ SAM FALLS PROJECT ROOM
★ OPENING: 21 JANUARY 21, 7 PM
in collaboration with GALLERIA FRANCO NOERO

Monument to Time (City) is a work composed of two distinct and symmetrical elements, positioned
outdoors and in dialogue with each other at a distance that is not too close. These are sculptures
composed of metal plates and stone or marble elements. In this case, at the ends of
each of them are two parallelepipeds, the first made of stone similar to Egyptian red porphyry but
of Chinese origin, while the second, from India, is a stone with irregular layers
in a warm shade of yellow. The parallelepipeds are crossed along their entire height by slits that allow
two metal plates, in aluminium and Cor Ten steel, to be housed in a joint of elementary
effectiveness.

Exposed to atmospheric agents, over time, the various elements that make up the sculpture
will take on a patina, changing their appearance, sometimes more noticeably, as in the case of
Cor Ten, whose surface will become covered with rust, and sometimes more slowly and less
conspicuously, as in the case of aluminium and stone, which will be enriched by the signs of ageing.
One of the characteristics that distinguishes Sam Falls’ work is precisely the possibility of being able to
use the action of atmospheric agents and their unpredictable effect as a fundamental element
in the final definition of his works, accepting their randomness, uncontrollability and
changeability, so as to also reveal the perception of the passing of time as an integral part
of his work.

Rain and sunlight are recurring elements in the construction and development of the
artist’s work, as well as a transfer, a reflection of his desire to restore and
convey his constant need to interpenetrate with the environment and with the experience of
natural phenomena linked to it.

This aspect is also evident in his ceramic works, in which branches, flowers and leaves characteristic of the place where the work is created leave their mark in the softness of the clay, only to be reduced to ashes and disappear during the first firing. The delicate grooves that mark the surface, now “biscuit”, are filled with glazes that restore the naturalness of their original colours. The ceramics produced in this way are then
housed in the recesses of double-T beams, elements created to be assembled in different
shapes, just like the opportunities for variation in the design of the structural skeleton of a
building.

In the courtyard of the NH Collection Torino Piazza Carlina, a steel beam will be placed in the centre,
resting on the ground as if it were a fragment of a flowery meadow, and a vertical totemic structure that suggests the effect of a climbing plant, repeating itself and changing colour on each of the various faces of the double-T beam.