{"id":56083,"date":"2018-05-06T18:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donnecultura.eu\/?p=56083"},"modified":"2018-05-07T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:02:53","slug":"arte-a-milano-riccardo-crespi-gallery-veronica-smirnoff-tales-of-bright-and-brittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnecultura.eu\/?p=56083","title":{"rendered":"Arte a Milano – Riccardo Crespi gallery -Veronica Smirnoff Tales of Bright and Brittle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veronica Smirnoff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tales of Bright and Brittle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Preview 16 maggio 2018 \u2013 h. 18.30<\/p>\n

17 maggio \u2013 20 luglio 2018<\/p>\n

La galleria Riccardo Crespi presenta Tales of Bright and Brittle (Racconti di Fulgore e Fragilit\u00e0)<\/strong><\/em>, la terza personale in Italia dell\u2019artista inglese di origine russa Veronica Smirnoff.<\/p>\n

Le opere in mostra costituiscono un corpus quasi completamente unitario, concepito e dipinto tra il 2017 e il 2018 dall\u2019artista che approfondisce varie intuizioni tra fantasia e storia, folclore e immaginazione. Smirnoff trae ispirazione dalle sue esperienze di luoghi, dal suo amore per libri e racconti, nel rispetto di storia, miti ed epiche comuni.<\/p>\n

La tempera all’uovo su tavola gessata<\/strong>, una delle tecniche pi\u00f9 antiche e minuziose, \u00e8 strumentale al procedimento in cui l\u2019artista combina la tecnica dell\u2019icona con la miniatura, la tradizione asiatica con l’arte popolare, nonch\u00e9 con spunti e simboli da altre fonti, per aggiungere significato e validit\u00e0 ai suoi soggetti. Impadronendosi di diversi linguaggi pittorici attraverso giustapposizione irrazionale e pura intuizione, fa intuire l’implacabile conflitto tra figurazione e astrazione, un equilibrio sottile e costantemente re-immaginato tra allegoria e appropriazione.<\/p>\n

Nelle parole dell’artista: “La magia dell\u2019audacia di raccontare quel che sempre accade nello spazio mentale \u00e8 la prova dell’immaginazione che permette di muoverci liberamente nel regno della fantasia, riluttanti a mettere in discussione la mancanza di logica tra le cose incomprensibili che prima o poi trovano un senso e ci insegnano qualcosa sul mondo reale.”<\/p>\n

Gli spunti tematici sono molteplici e inestinguibili: in Scarlet and Seraphim<\/strong><\/em> l\u2019esplicito riferimento a L\u2019isola dei morti di B\u00f6cklin si allenta in uno spazio pi\u00f9 luminoso, suggerendo la possibilit\u00e0 di esplorare ancora pittura e vita – che qui mostrano un destino comune in cui pensieri ed immagini sono soggetti ad un eterno ritorno. Non mancano neppure i cenni al mondo contemporaneo, nella sua bellezza e fragilit\u00e0: Echelon<\/strong><\/em> mostra un gruppo di persone incolonnate, forse migranti – ma pi\u00f9 semplicemente esseri umani – in cammino verso ignoti territori, in cui ognuno porta storia e sensibilit\u00e0 proprie: ci\u00f2 che rende unico il nostro viaggio, racchiuso in una memoria collettiva, mai priva dell’antico istinto di meraviglia, sicurezza e speranza.<\/p>\n

La mostra sar\u00e0 accompagnata da un libro<\/strong> edito da Gli Ori<\/strong>, Pistoia.<\/p>\n

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Veronica Smirnoff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tales of Bright and Brittle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Preview 16th May 2018 \u2013 h. 6.30 pm<\/p>\n

17th May \u2013 20th July 2018<\/p>\n

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Riccardo Crespi<\/strong> gallery is pleased to present Tales of Bright and Brittle<\/strong><\/em>, the third solo exhibition in Italy by the British artist of Russian origin Veronica Smirnoff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The paintings on show make up the body of work, conceived and created between 2017 and 2018, which explores various insights into the fantastical and historical, the folkloric and illusory. Smirnoff draws inspiration from her experiences of places, her love for books and tales, abiding with history, myths and old epics that people hold in common.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0egg tempera on gessoed wood<\/strong>, one of the oldest and finicky techniques, is instrumental to the artist’s working process. She employs methodology, associated with icon and miniature painting, Asian tradition and folk art as well as ideas, symbols and gestures from other sources to add meaning and validity to her subjects. Borrowing from different pictorial languages versus irrational proximity and pure intuition somewhat intimates the relentless conflict between figuration and abstraction, a subtle and constantly reimagined balance between allegory and appropriation.<\/p>\n

In the artist’s words: ”The magic of daring to relate something always happens in the mental space. It is a test of imagination which allows us to move freely in the realm of fantasy, reluctant to question the lack of mental connection between the incomprehensible things that eventually make sense and teach us something about the real world.”<\/p>\n

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The thematic cues are opulent and self-perpetuating: in Scarlet and Seraphim<\/strong><\/em>, the explicit reference to B\u00f6cklin\u2019s Isle of the Dead\u00a0loosens into a more luminous ephemeral space, evincing that it is still possible to explore painting and life. Here they reveal a common destiny in which thoughts and images are subject to an eternal return. Incidentally there are always allusions to the contemporary world, enduring in its beauty and fragility: Echelon<\/strong><\/em> depicts a group of people walking in line, perhaps migrants but simply human beings heading for unknown lands, to where each will bring his or her own story and sensibility. Thus every individual journey is unique yet embraced by our collective memory, never bereft of the ancient instinct of elementary wonder, belief and hope.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition will be accompanied by a book<\/strong> published by Gli Ori<\/strong>, Pistoia.<\/p>\n

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