Cyborg by Beatrice Brandini
Giulia Cenci the hollow men, 2025, aluminum, iron and mechanical parts.
The hollow men is a project specifically conceived and created by the Italian artist Giulia Cenci for the Project Space at Palazzo Strozzi, curated by the General Director of the Foundation, Arturo Galansino.
Giulia Cenci the hollow men, 2025, aluminum, iron and mechanical parts.
With this exhibition Palazzo Strozzi inaugurates the Project Space, a new exhibition space dedicated to emerging art and conceived as a platform for experimentation and research in the heart of Florence.
Giulia Cenci the hollow men, 2025, aluminum, iron and mechanical parts.
Giulia Cenci is an artist who lives and works between Amsterdam and Cortona. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, after completing her education with a Master in Fine Arts at the St. Joost Academy in Breda, Netherlands, and participated in the prestigious artistic residency De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her works are present in important institutions and prestigious private collections.
Giulia Cenci the hollow men, 2025, aluminum, iron and mechanical parts.
The title of the exhibition is inspired by the homonymous poem by T.S. Eliot from 1925 in which the hollow men are inert figures, in a limbo between life and death, incapable of acting after the drama of the First World War, just like the sculptures of Giulia Cenci
A glimpse of the exhibition the hollow men
Her figures are evocative, in fact they recall human, animal and plant anatomies, welded together in a very fragile balance. “In my creative process I often start from poetry, especially when I look for a reference that guides me in the narration, in the title and in the written part of my work. The Hallow Men by T. S. Eliot talks about the traumatized community after the war, unable to believe in the values that had characterized it, in an absence of movement, thought, life”. Giulia Cenci
The hollow men exhibition banner
The exhibition will be open from today, May 29th until August 31st 2025, every day from 10:00 to 20:00 (Thursday until 23:00) with free admission, one more opportunity to visit it.
Good life to everyone!
Beatrice