Art is intuition, experience and listening, an antidote to gray everyday life. They know it well Paolo Brenzini and Matteo Faben masters who have made art their reason for living, a means through which to leave their mark. United by a strong creative identity, which is expressed through different languages, the two artists exhibit together for the first time at the Valeria Lattanzi Gallery in Carrara. You will be welcomed by the bold sculptures of the Veronese sculptor, whose visceral love for white gold led him to move permanently to the city of quarries. And if it is true that from Michelangelo to Canova there are many masters who have made marble the means through which to communicate, Faben undertakes a courageous and audacious choice by moving away from classical statuary to give life to irreverent sculptures, which lead us into his fantastic world in whose imposing sperm whales “swim” on human bodies, floating on rigid chairs. The touch of surrealism, the particular taste for divertissement that plays on confusion and irony, actually hides a profound meaning. The sperm whale, a gentle animal, which symbolically pushes man to explore the depths of his soul becomes not only the symbol through which to exploit his potential, but also the icon through which to “immerse” the spectator in the oceans suffocated by plastic. The graceful ones of him”Cachalot”, who dialogue with the human world seem to tell us: “let’s overcome our limits, let’s re-emerge from the abyss.” Continuing the exhibition you will come across the eclectic and participatory art of Paolo Brenzini from which his explosive ability to communicate emerges, not only through sight. His more than thirty-year research exploits the universal language of art to address very current themes, creativity becomes for him an automatic translator of complex ideas that intend, managing to give rise to a thought. It was 2007 when he realized the project “Dreams in the refrigerator” in which the artist, with his intelligently provocative approach, deals with the theme of broken loves, of dreams that sometimes don’t come true.
The exhibition at the Valeria Lattanzi Gallery becomes an opportunity to present to the public a colorful installation, already exhibited at the Pecci museum, with which the artist seems to want to amaze his audience once again by making it an active part of the creative process: entering a work letting it strike us as we walk through it, this is “Aphonia”. Imaginative microphone holders, at the ends of which there are two glottides in Argon and neon placed in front of solar panels in silicon gel and silver wires become a means by which to translate sound into colour. If it was primarily the father of abstract art Vasily Kandinsky who “saw” music, Brenzini underlines the intrinsic capacity in these two arts to make the invisible visible. Thus his inherent and profound desire to tell something that goes beyond what we see emerges: we exist and are part of something bigger.
The vernissage, which will be held on Saturday 16 March 2024 at 5.00 pm at the Valeria Lattanzi Gallery located in Via Cavour 6 in Carrara, will be enlivened by the performance of the violinist Fabio Ussi and the soprano Luz Del Alba.
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