MUSEO DEL TESSUTO
EX CIMATORIA CAMPOLMI
Via Santa Chiara 24
tel. 0574/611503
critical
text by Maurizio Poli
All
around there is silence, still air, a veil of fog on our soul, suspended
light and shadow, the shadow in the shadow, the light in the light. And
yet, in this silence, light and shadow talk to each other, inside the
rhythm of a paratactic and endless assemblage, in the in the backgrounds.
Light and shadow are the plastic means used in the paintings by Lorenzo
Bianci, an artist who places the objects in an exclusive distance and
in a tactile velvety nearness. The pictorial synaesthesia strictly connects
the tactile and the visual sensation and the objects suspend every motion,
except for linking, through a thin passage, reality to unreality. But
let's not fool ourselves, in Lorenzo Bianci's works there is no symbolism
or cabbalistic evocation, light and shadow are the main icons of his paintings.
A "lying" look embraces the vertical perspective of night and
day; and, going upwards, maybe depicts a scenery of the soul.
Barbara Ceccatelli works on artificial objects and environments, made
of synthetic coloured material, a zoo of imaginary free characters, drawn
out of inexistent cartoons, capturing the rapt looks of children and the
dull puzzlement of adults. Cartoon-design, unique pieces, outline an imaginary
"pulp" reality, where everyday life is metabolised through irony,
play and sarcastic jokes. Objects lost in their small dimensions, in colours
and also in their strong sensuality emerge from the playground, a place
belonging par excellence to children-children and to the memories of the
adult-children. These cult-objects, a cherished and loved fetish, jingle
in our mind with a sweet and terrible voice. Is the cartoon turned into
a toy or a fetish by the adults' conscience?
