Cagliari. Luminous words light up in the darkness to outline a constantly evolving flow of thoughts, sensations and moods. They are the “Minimum Biographies” by Marco Ceraglia, an installation with a flavour DaDa, irreverent, playful, light and at the same time capable of delving into the depths, which the photographer and visual artist from Sassari brings to Cagliari, guest of Sardegna Ricerche, in the Ex Manifattura Tabacchi in viale Regina Margherita 33, from Friday 19th (opening at .18) to Monday 29 April. The design of the original setup is by Luigi Manca.
On this occasion, moving away from his chosen expressive medium, photography, Marco Ceraglia – who has been exploring new expressive paths for decades now – allows himself to experiment with three-dimensional materials and shapes that stand out in space in all their physical evidence. This is how the elements of the “Minimum Biographies” installation were born, illuminated from within and on whose steel surface short sentences, questions, reflections were engraved with a plasma cut, which, read in a more or less random order, recompose in a extemporaneous internal dialogue, like small biographies. If in his most famous projects – such as “The group portrait pilargest in the world”, which brought together in a single blow-up all the inhabitants of the town of Banari – Ceraglia opened up to a collective dimension, this time it focuses, between psychological excavation and sarcastic levity, on one’s own private life, which is not so far, ultimately, from that of each of us.
In the dim light of the room inside the Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, the irony of questions such as “If I write it on steel am I less fragile?”, or considerations such as “Everyone likes to give orders, I like to disobey”, and again “Before you say no, make sure you know what to”. «My Minimal Biographies are an attempt to bring moods, thoughts, doubts and discontent to the outside, in an attempt to distance them in order to understand them; in order to be able to block the corrosive action for which I feel they are responsible towards my self” explains Marco Ceraglia. «I recognize myself in various passages of the DaDa movement, which is why I find myself giving this semantic form to my project, partly to desecrate and partly to lighten and distance concepts for which “there is little to laugh about”. The technological revolution and the advent of the digital revolution, the retreat of politics, the excessive power of social mechanisms, the prevailing nihilism and gender issues are some of the topics and environments that I have to frequent and from which I draw the reflections that lead to my Biographies Minimum”.
As Antonello Carboni writes in the text accompanying the exhibition: «Words change, we over time and they with us. The author’s unconscious emerges and is released with all its creative strength, it becomes a gesture, it becomes writing of variable forms in a harmonious composition that goes beyond the rational sense of the object. Probe new cognitive perimeters. We witness a journey in which we are free to inhabit the text and no longer recognize ourselves or hide once again behind the mask of that hermetic language to which we assign the value of our Being”.
Marco Ceraglia he is a photographer, teacher, visual artist. In his research and production he refers significantly to the practice of visual poets, he is interested in the sign and its ability to carry meaning, influenced by artists such as Irma BlanK, Emilio Isgrò, Giovanni Anselmo, P. Fischli and D. Weiss. For his works he uses iron, steel, wood and other poor materials. He has obtained various international recognitions and his works are present in public and private collections.
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