Second Act| The gaze on the world
Biffi Arte presents the newest and most original voices in three exhibitions
of Italian female art.
Is there a specifically female way of looking at the world? Is there a "female" gaze that can be concretely contrasted with a "male" gaze? Beyond clichés, perhaps, it can be hypothesized with a certain plausibility that if the male eye is better trained in the overall vision and strategic solution, the female eye seems more inclined to look in depth, to penetrate reality through sounding. An emotional, rather than practical, sounding.
The exhibition was born from this belief The look on the world, second chapter of the review Feminine, plural, scheduled by Biffi Arte from 27 June to 3 August. After Intimacy, the look inside – which investigated how ten women use art to read inside themselves, to be closer to their true selves - here the object of attention shifts outside. A shift in the framing which does not, however, correspond to a substantial change in the method. Which remains that of active contemplation, silent listening, understanding in the richest sense of the term (contain within oneself, embrace, enclose), wisdom, but also sometimes that of hearty laughter, irony - perhaps with a slight undertone of bitterness - and play.
Se Alessandra Baldoni tells the emotions of an unlived passion through the powerful, highly symbolic and lyrical language of his photographs, Linda Carrara he recreates the space around himself through painting, building environments with clear architecture and magmatic colors in which we have the impression of losing ourselves. And we really risk getting lost in the forests of Marika Vicari, expanses of trees filled with lights and shadows, almost like backdrops ready to welcome us into their mysteries. Even vegetation, leaves, stems, immense flowers perhaps coming from another world, are the matter through which Brigitta Rossetti investigate the real. Not the forest, however, but the metropolis is the terrain of Marina Previtali, which with its vibrant, very mobile, intense brushstrokes gives us a Milan "that rises" like a teeming construction site pulsating with neon flashes. And the paintings of this same metropolis appear almost like close-up shots of this same metropolis Liliana Cecchin, with the crowd running past each other and the movements that double the figure and multiply it in a neo-futurist dance. Far from the crowd, immersed in a muffled silence, here are the rooms of Tina Sgro: enchanted, timeless environments, filled with a soft and pacifying light that blurs the contours and confuses the gaze. And out of time the girls of Cristina Iotti, almost pencil and pastel embroideries that tell us, between laces and arabesques of astonishing precision, the small, entirely feminine drama of the choice of dress. A real room is one into which you invite the viewer Claudia Scarsella: comfortable cushions to sit on and upholstery on which small moments of life, images, memories, clippings, fragments of photographs double and multiply like in a kaleidoscope. The fairy world he invites us into Loredana Galante, however, is more similar to the one Alice found after crossing the mirror, among flowerbeds that emerge from the floor as if by magic, brightly colored birds, overflowing fountains, sumptuous fruit baskets and wise spiders that weave silky webs ready to trap us. Marina Giannobi he chooses a theme - it can be reading or, as in this case, music - and immortalizes it in an endless series of photographic shots, analyzes it down to the infinitesimal detail, returning it to us in vibrant images, in clever and surprising out-of-focus, like a precious film to be recreated within us. A very clean look at reality is that of Elisa Rossi, which in oils on canvas all played on shadows, blacks and whites, tells of a tender everyday life, where almost photographic accuracy dissolves into poetry. And very clear, as if framed by a hypersensitive zoom, are the flowers of Chiara Albertoni. Immense, rendered with a stunning definition that gives us the impression of being able to touch every drop of dew, they stare at us splendid, regal, sensual, alive like thinking creatures. Instead, the paint tastes like candy and candy canes Marica Fasoli. A hyperrealism that goes beyond the mere reproduction of real data, which breaks through two dimensions and with a metaphysical brightness and clarity tells of dreams, promises, hopes and small unforgettable moments.
Like the first chapter, Interiority, looking inside, Also The look on the world will have a twin exhibition in Milan, in the eighteenth-century Palazzo Pirola in Gorgonzola, from 18 October to 9 November. In this case the artists will also be joined by the protagonists of the third and final chapter of the exhibition, The spaces of the dream, scheduled in Piacenza between December 2014 and January 2015.
The look on the world
27 June | 03 August
Inauguration Friday 27 June hours 18
guest of the evening Angelo Ascoli, director of Diva and Woman
Biffi Art Gallery
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