Mai Gurewitz

Italy

Milan

Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea

Painting

Untitled

The scream

Sergio Padovani

L'artista mercante

Stefano Bosis

Narciso

Alfio Giurato

coro

Nicolò Quirico

Mixed Media

Il Visconte

Andrea Mariconti

Lorenzo Tonda

Le possibilità dell'ozio

Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present “Figurati!”, introduced by Bohdan Stupak with works by Alfio Giurato, Andrea Mariconti, Nicolò Quirico, Lorenzo Tonda, Stefano Bosis, Sergio Padovani, Mai Gurewitz and Szymon Oltarzewski. The show will open on November 29, 2022, and run through January 20, 2023.Modern society provides us with the image of a dynamic man, connected with the world and with multiple alternatives. But this presumed and absolute freedom forces him to measure himself with uncertainty, risk and, sometimes, existential emptiness. Existence, in its continuous becoming and transforming, can therefore bring a feeling of loneliness in front of the world.If the “speed” is the peculiarity of the modern life, the most radical aspect of painting is to introduce a slowdown. Not only in the creative moment, but also in its vision, thus becoming, regardless of its forms, a contemplative art. The lack of synchrony with its own space-time makes painting appear as a separate medium from contemporaneity. But, as Philip Taaffe exclaimed in the 1980s at a Flash Art round table, “you can't kill painting!”. When painting discards his aspiration to be representation and imitative, it becomes contemporary.In the works of Alfio Giurato (Catania, 1978) and Andrea Mariconti (Lodi, 1978) the human figure is related to collective existence, in Nicolò Quirico (Monza, 1966) the contrast between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil is made evident by the tension of the parts, in Stefano Bosis (Milan, 1979) and Sergio Padovani (Modena, 1972) solitude is represented as an interaction with nature. For the first time exhibited in the gallery, the sculptor Szymon Oltarzewski (Lesko, Poland, 1977) presents veiled figures, blocks of marble that conceal figures in which the theme of conservation anticipates a probable movement, Lorenzo Tonda (Fiesole, 1992) represents the idleness of contemporary man constantly accompanied by the digital world, while Mai Gurewitz (Israel, 1999) paints solitary moments of everyday life.The exhibition follows, after 15 years, the first collective "Figurati!": it was in fact November 2007 when Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea inaugurated the collective with the works of Nicola Samorì, Marco Fantini, Greta Frau, Marco Luzi, Anna Madia, Andrea Mariconti and Simona Bramati, later hosted at the Officina delle Arti Museum in Reggio Emilia (February 2008).


Figurati!

Figurati!

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