For this 2024 season of SENSI ARTE’s exhibitions, which featured the theme of Travel and Transition, we are going to end with the not yet explored sense of Travel as introspection, as unattainable distance in the tangible sense.
With this final bi-personal, we understand the journey as the path we take by paying attention to the outside world and those around us. In this exhibition, the artists represent a space of silence and slowness, of estrangement and reflection towards a human nature that needs suspension to be able to find itself. Both Massimo Barlettani and Gerald Moroder tend to a deep, intense, immeasurable silence and both launch a message of hope for a humanity afflicted by disenchantment.
Moroder conveys a philosophical message by depicting mute or solitary figures in a world that appears cold and made of stone, but which is just waiting to be investigated and brought to cognitive perfection. The thin and filiform bodies of Moroder, shadows of themselves, are not in a hurry, and they barely look around. The figures-sculptures are made of an extraordinary material that the artist invents to deceive us. Granite, earth and wood: they defy gravity and give us the illusion of being something else.
Barlettani‘s floral suggestions also contain silence and the capacity to see beyond what is immediately apparent. Life flows like sap, powerful and unstoppable in its painted stems, translucent and rarefied petals and corollas, and tells us that the slower its journey of nourishment, the more fleeting our existence is. The act of reflecting on beauty is the cure for our pain, thoughts, and weaknesses.
In collaboration with Sister Gallery iSculpture
From 31/10/2024 to 06/01/2025
At SENSI ARTE Pop-Up Gallery in Siena, Vicolo del Cavalletto 4 (SI)
