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PASSENGERS
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09/02/2017 - 18/03/2017:
The Flat – Massimo Carasi is pleased to present the new group exhibition “Passengers”.
We are submerged by images, while we live in a world where anonymous IKEA furnitures and normcore clothes seem to be the only way to avoid a visual overcrowding that suffocates us. Advertisings, tv spots, banners fixed to street lamps or on the tube walls: our eyes slip on those flat forms everyday without perceiving anything but a vague presence. This is quite absurd if we think that before the XX century the people would see less or more a hundred images during their entire life, which is the same amount we can generally achieve in a few minutes.
But what happens to the image if we deny it, if we ignore it? It becomes meaningless, and what remains is just a form, a silhouette. We often start something like a mental iconoclasm, but does it make sense if more and more images are being produced everyday? Has art reached a point where she has to abandon those recognizable forms that have always been part of our human behaviour, at all? This would mean to leave this current world without any trace of our passage to posterity. It would also mean to deny a tipically human necessity: that of using images to learn and recognize, as Aristotle already claimed in the IV century b.C.
The five artists on show – Andrea Carpita, Cosimo Casoni, Eracle Dartizio, Domenico Laterza, Marco Strappato – are linked together by a methodology that constantly stress this reflection by bringing together technique, research and poetry. The artworks have images, but those are often hidden. They need to be found, to be hosted, as in everyday life should happen. The artists themselves invite the beholder to dig and search those images, holding them without denying or taking them for granted. As Georges Didi-Hubermann taught, we should try rebuilding every image from each fragment left behind: we have to start from their loss and their lacking to make their form floating from an absence that was either accidental or deliberate. In the art of the new millennium this is the main task of us, as users and beholders.
Time:
martedì - sabato 14:30 - 19:30
Where: The Flat - Massimo Carasi - Via Paolo Frisi 3 |
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