Cristina Iotti and Massimo Barlettani
The Power of Flowers
the silent revolution of flowers
edited by Maria Gabriella Damiani
The Power of Flowers
the silent revolution of flowers
edited by Maria Gabriella Damiani
Vernissage May 3rd at 6.00 pm
3 – 21 maggio 2023
3 – 21 maggio 2023
Contemporary Art Horizons
Piazzetta Cathedral, Historic Center, Ostuni
Piazzetta Cathedral, Historic Center, Ostuni
The second exhibition that will be hosted in the new Project Room of the Orizzonti Arte Contemporanea Gallery in Ostuni is that of Cristina Iotti and Massimo Barlettani entitled The Power of Flowers. In this two-person exhibition the artists discuss the importance of returning to the beauty of simplicity, listening and observing nature, painting a flower, implementing the silent revolution of flowers in the genuineness of the gesture that portrays creation.
Faced with the artistic production of Massimo Barlettani - Nature vive - a risk is possible, that of stopping at the epiphenomenon, at the persuasive charm of flowers or butterflies and, amiably, feeling satiated and not going any further. In reality, what we see is only and only a link with what the artist wants to tell us which then, all things considered, is of clarity both in form and, and above all, in content, exemplary (...) Barlettani paints flowers that do not they are nothing more than stylistic features of a language created to describe the personal world, and between a breath of wind and a flutter of wings, with measure, offer the opportunity and stimulus for reflection. Barlettani creates beauty, and moves from this to visually represent some concepts (...) Flowers, transient creatures that resist the wind, and symbolize that elegance that only nature is capable of giving. There is in this an exciting respect for a fragile inhabitant of our world who asks for nothing in exchange for what he offers. The artist represents him in his habitat. To accentuate the impression of movement in the wind he uses metallic pigments that vary the visual impact depending on the light. What is contained in these flowers of his? The answer is extremely obvious: there is life. The beauty that is often missing, but we must not, we cannot give up and give it up - there is the power of life, its ephemeral being, and there is also a warning to remember that we draw our nourishment, physical and otherwise, from the earth that we live in. Like a flower. An intensely spiritual, non-religious, if anything ideal discourse...(...)
Extract from the text by Jacopo Chiostri
Extract from the text by Jacopo Chiostri
Differently, Cristina Iotti has specialized over the years in the use of colored pencils and has made drawing her stylistic signature, finding in this technique the expressive method most congenial to her, so much so that she has obtained various recognitions, national and international prizes.
In recent years she has also approached the world of photography, transferring her poetics into fine art photographic images. She was then fascinated by the ancient cyanotype technique dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, and began to experiment and explore it, integrating and personalizing her cyanotypes with watercolors and colored pencils, works that the artist is presenting for the first time in the exhibition. Cristina Iotti describes her artistic experience with this new technique in this way: «I was immediately fascinated by the cyanotype technique due to the strong poetic value it gives to the images initially obtained from a current and modern medium such as the digital camera, but the magic lies in the " return to the past” with which the printing and development of the work on cotton paper is then carried out with completely manual procedures. The cyanotype works are created starting from negatives obtained from my photographs and exposed to sunlight, or under a UV lamp, thus maintaining all the unpredictability, charm and poetry of ancient things. Each cyanotype is a unique piece, I never reprint the same negative and almost always intervene manually with pencils, colored pencils and watercolours, obtaining a final result that lies somewhere between photography and drawing".
In recent years she has also approached the world of photography, transferring her poetics into fine art photographic images. She was then fascinated by the ancient cyanotype technique dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, and began to experiment and explore it, integrating and personalizing her cyanotypes with watercolors and colored pencils, works that the artist is presenting for the first time in the exhibition. Cristina Iotti describes her artistic experience with this new technique in this way: «I was immediately fascinated by the cyanotype technique due to the strong poetic value it gives to the images initially obtained from a current and modern medium such as the digital camera, but the magic lies in the " return to the past” with which the printing and development of the work on cotton paper is then carried out with completely manual procedures. The cyanotype works are created starting from negatives obtained from my photographs and exposed to sunlight, or under a UV lamp, thus maintaining all the unpredictability, charm and poetry of ancient things. Each cyanotype is a unique piece, I never reprint the same negative and almost always intervene manually with pencils, colored pencils and watercolours, obtaining a final result that lies somewhere between photography and drawing".
Cristina Iotti – Massimo Barlettani
The Power of Flowers
The silent revolution of flowers
edited by Maria Gabriella Damiani
The Power of Flowers
The silent revolution of flowers
edited by Maria Gabriella Damiani
Vernissage May 3rd at 6.00 pm
3 – 21 maggio 2023
3 – 21 maggio 2023
ORIZZONTI GALLERY CONTEMPORARY ART
Piazzetta Cattedrale (historic centre)
72017 Ostuni (Br)
Tel. 0831.335373 – Cell. 348.8032506
info@orizzontiarte.it – www.orizzontiarte.it
In: Orizzontiartecontemporanea
Piazzetta Cattedrale (historic centre)
72017 Ostuni (Br)
Tel. 0831.335373 – Cell. 348.8032506
info@orizzontiarte.it – www.orizzontiarte.it
In: Orizzontiartecontemporanea
