Maria Cristina Crespo: Infinite Cabinet

"Infinite Cabinet. Between André Malraux's Imaginary Museum and Jorge Luis Borges's Unfathomable Cosmic Library" di Maria Cristina Crespo, edited by Giusy Caroppo and promoted by Eclectic Culture of Art, è Side Event of the 61th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. About The exhibition-installation, open to the public from 9st May al 22th November 2026 a Riva San Biasio-Castello 2145, is configured as a Contemporary Wunderkammer. Composed of polymaterial works, it hinges the complex research of the artist Maria Cristina Crespo within the theme “In Minor Keys” by Koyo Kouoh, offering a reflection on Western culture through a journey through Literature, Art, Myth, Religion, Philosophy and Places of Belonging. “Infinito Cabinet” by Maria Cristina Crespo presents an iconographic theater in which genres and times interact: the cult of Mithras, popular arts, the East, the West, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Central Europe, and the Mediterranean; Ovid, Dante, Novalis, Pasolini, Artaud, and The Thousand and One Nights come to life alongside myths, saints, heroes, medieval Rome, Orthodox Europe, textile India, Baroque Mexico, Asian deserts, and real or symbolic places. A micro-narration of History that takes shape in anthropomorphic vases and stages, Between pictorial backdrops, bizarre figures, and grotesquely styled recycled fabric garments, works with literary titles become instruments of knowledge and wonder. entering the debate on Cancel Culture, to which Crespo opposes a non-ideological and "countercurrent" cultural dispute, addressed by the artist from the late Seventies to today, a moment of crisis of the Western identity, claiming the complexity of Western identity as a resource. And Venice, a city of contaminations, becomes an emblematic place: a landscape of the Memory of the World, overlooking the Grand Canal, between finite and infinite. Sculpture Installation