Daybreak
Camilla Grimaldi Gallery
Via dei Tre Orologi 6A, 00197 Rome
Opening 14th December 2023
The show will include two recent bodies of works: the Teatrini and the series The way in, both revolving around the meeting point, the place where one thing ends and another begins, how different entities or beings occupy the space alongside each other, how they lean on each other in order to gain stability.
Most of the pieces in this exhibition came like those dreams that one gets at daybreak, those visions that stay so vivid for a while, and make you wonder if you should try and catch them.
Midnight Spelunking
A joint exhibition with Nick Phillips
23rd September – 2nd October 2022
Nutshell Studios, Old Market, Nailsworth, GL6 0DU
A joint exhibition of recent sculptures and paintings, for two weekends at the Nutshell Studios. Informed by theatrical space as a setting for imaginative work to happen, such as narratives, magic and epiphanies, Viviana’s delicate and humorous sculptural assemblages sit alongside Nick’s mysterious colourful paintings.
“It’s hard to say why people engage in a dialogue.
Maybe because they believe they can better themselves or gain something. The exchange between Nick and I, in these terms, makes no exception” …
La Brûleuse de Terre
August 2022
Sometimes miracles do happen.
La Brûleuse de Terre, a piece I imagined in 2016 is now floating on velvety water in Nympsfield, in what will soon open as an elephant sanctuary, we are just waiting for those elephants (yes, we are talking about the UK) to find their way here.
The making process has been both tortuous and serendipitous in such a way that it feels more appropriate to call it a journey…
A Dance for Edward James
December 2021
Published by West Dean College, November 2021, here
“On a dewy October morning, my mother-in-law’s Nissan Micra was ready under the plumping grapes of the pergola, packed with metal sheets, rods, tools, theatre stage backdrops and the broadest selection of paraphernalia, including some bones that I borrowed from my dog’s private collection and a set of fake teeth found in a disused dentist studio in Southern Italy.
Clearly, I had been chosen as Maker-in-Residence at West Dean College, and I was going to make a big deal of it…”
2021 Maker in Residence at
West Dean College
October 2021
West Dean College – The Edward James Foundation
Nr Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0QZ
Loose Cannons & Spider Webs
An exhibition of sculptures, mobiles and serenades
12th September – 26th September 2021
The Nutshell Studios, Old Market, Nailsworth GL6 0DU
Mobiles – Stabiles
11th December – 16th December 2019
44 Lower Sloane St, Flat 6, London SW1W 8BP
FRESH AIR SCULPTURE SHOW 2017
11th June – 2 July 2017
The Old Rectory, Quenington, Gloucestershire GL7 5BN
Radio interview on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, as recipient of the M Kent award at Fresh Air Sculpture, 2017.
OPEN STUDIO
May 2016
Orchard House, Hay Lane, Horsley GL6 0QD
7-8 and 14-15 May, 2016, 10 to 4
www.viviana.rossicaffell.com
MOBILES
June 2015
Lost & Found Space, via Guastalla 5, 10121, Torino, IT