Namsal Siedlecki
Greenfield, United States, 1986
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Image courtesy of the artist © Namsal Siedlecki

Namsal Siedlecki’s sculpture investigates the transformative properties of matter—bronze, copper, and electroplating—allowing time itself to accumulate physically on the surfaces of his works. The process becomes structure, and the artwork exists within a tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, between archaic forms and contemporary questions. A residency in Kathmandu in 2019 led him to experiment with traditional Nepali lost-wax casting, giving rise to the Mvah Chā cycle: bronze sculptures of indeterminate mass, expressive unfinished forms that engage with Hindu and Buddhist religious iconography. In 2015, he received the Cy Twombly Italian Affiliated Fellowship in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome and won the fourth edition of the Moroso Prize. In 2019, he was awarded both the Club GAMeC Prize and the 20th Cairo Prize. His work has been exhibited at MAXXI Rome, GAMeC Bergamo, Palazzo Reale Milan, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, Villa Medici Rome, Museo Novecento Florence, Magazzino Italian Art New York, and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Venice. He lives and works in Seggiano.