Exhibition at Villa Clerici  Via Giovanni Terruggia 14, Milano

The exhibition "Energy Shifts", curated by Luigi Codemo and organised by GASC and Isorropia Homegallery, presents twenty works by Angiola Gatti and Laura Santamaria from 18 October to 20 November.

The exhibition, set up in the rooms on the piano nobile of Villa Clerici, combines and arranges the works of the two artists in a path based on the interweaving of matter and sign.

Laura Santamaria's canvases, papers and installations are chosen spaces for the contemplation of colour. Her art expresses a process of transformation and purification: it is directly from matter that the artist draws the pigments that then become her colours. These works require a direct, unmediated vision in order to maintain and perceive the strength and energy of the material from which they derive. One example is the Sardinian soil burnt by fires, recovered and used for the site-specific work set up at the beginning of the exhibition: a testimony to how his work of abstraction is grafted onto time, preserving the wounds of history.

On show are canvases, drawings and photographs by Angiola Gatti that reveal, or rather make present, the power of the sign. A multiplicity of signs, of singularities, of uniqueness: small strokes, mainly executed with ballpoint pen or pencil, which have the strength of an engraving where slenderness combines with the expansion of colour. Voids and solids chase each other, bind and disperse. A sense of fragility and grace emanates from each of his works. The large canvases, like the small sheets of paper, invite you to come closer, almost to the point of feeling the passage, the breath of the invisible on your face.

ENERGY SHIFTS

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