Through the Spaces of a Story. Works by Marie Michèle Poncet and Dino Quartana

Two artists living in Paris, Manfredi (Dino) Quartana and Marie Michèle Poncet, share at the Meeting in Rimini the adventure of their vocation as sculptors.
The presence of their works—arranged in two distinct exhibition paths, like a diptych—is offered to visitors as a privileged space for contemplation and vision.

Their two creative processes serve as a metaphor for what happens in life: shaped by daily circumstances, historical events, and encounters that transform existence—concrete expressions of freedom in action.

The selection of works spans the entirety of both artists’ production. However, the exhibition layout highlights clear thematic clusters:
for Dino Quartana, these include games, wars, emergences, angels, and family;
for Marie Michèle Poncet, the themes are the ladder, the threshold, the house, the boat, and her interventions in creating liturgical spaces.

The architectural design of the exhibition, developed by a team of young architects led by Ivo Bonapace, aims to embody the exhibition’s title. It incorporates, alongside the artworks, words and images that together form a complex experience—one that emphasizes the individuality of each artist while offering a unified vision.

To support this approach, two videos directed by Giorgio Sciumè provide insight into the artistic language and poetic reasoning of each sculptor.
Additionally, interactive creative workshops—designed by Grazia Massone—invite visitors to draw closer to the artists’ creative processes.

The challenge posed by this exhibition, within the broader context of the Meeting in Rimini, is to allow the public—within a welcoming and intimate space—to perceive the true presence of the artworks, to encounter the artists themselves, and to spark a possible connection with their artistic proposal.