Friday 19 April at 6pm in the premises of Extras in Livorno with entrance from Piazza della Repubblica, the eagerly awaited inauguration of the first solo exhibition of the artist from Labro Sergio Bargagliotti «Some Bodies».
He writes the artist Angelo Foschini about Sergio:
«In recent years he has been a guest in my courses, but defining him as a student has always been a constraint for me. Sergio already arrived with a significant amount of experience in drawing, illustration and comics. Together we experimented with the oil technique, delving into some conceptual themes which in the last 30/40 years have animated many reflections on contemporary art, moving from the renewed relationship with the body at the end of the century to the new technologies which mix and reshape the our ways of perceiving the world.
His work has developed over time in close contact with the human figure. From life or mediated by supports or screens, he has always found, with the necessary differences in approach, a key to understanding that can only be revealed with a slow and careful work of revision, addition or subtraction of certain elements of the image.
(Re)discovering the material together was an enriching comparison, as it always is when we talk about knowledge, and where the concept merges with the craft. Seeing exhibitions of great international artists, talking about the history of past and contemporary art, loading the brushstrokes with gesture and thought was a poetic and responsible journey, towards a language, the pictorial one, which having roots in an ancient past can only continue to talk to us about the future.»
Sergio Bargagliotti, born in 1969, was born and lives in Livorno. Before dedicating himself to drawing and painting, he worked as an archaeologist and conducted excavations in Italy and abroad. Specializing in underwater archaeology, with particular attention to the study of maritime traffic of the Roman imperial age and ancient navigation, he used drawing to document the excavation phases and record the human actions that followed one another and were stratified, traveling backwards in time. Subsequently he dedicated himself to exploring the narrative possibilities of drawing in comics and graphic novels, before moving on to pictorial and graphic research using various media.
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