In the historical moment we are living in, in which all certainties of reality and our relationship with it have collapsed, my research stands out even more powerfully in the subtle reflection on human existence. In fact, that of Nocturnes is a series with roots that predate the current situation, but precisely because of its solitary and alienating dimension, it takes on even more significance.
The time fielded in my works is not to be measured in hours and minutes, but in those small and continuous transformations that the gesture is able to make on the untouched surface of the paper, marking its inexorable flow, as a sum, but at the same time also a subtraction, of traces and moments. In this way, the work is materialised in simple compositions made up of potentially infinite juxtapositions of sheets darkened with ballpoint pens, mindful of that gesture in constant repetition that cancels itself out in its summation, in an obsessive movement without pause. Thus opens an evocative representation, with a great spiritual and metaphysical impact, capable of enveloping the viewer in the chromatic vortex of darkness, created through a series of unexpected and unpredictable sign nuances that become the materialisation of my personal ritual obsession, somewhere between repeated physical exercise and concentrated mental operation.
But darkness alone would have no sense of existence, and is defined precisely by the unexpected emergence of its luminous counterpart, thanks to the iridescence and reverberations that only ink so treated is able to offer. In the extreme summation of signs, the dimension of the gesture repeated in an incomprehensible writing thus takes tangible form, which is crystallized in sheets with a profoundly changing soul, suspended in time and space.
And so, after descending into Notturni deepest darkness -mindful also of my sleepless nights tinged with the same color as my works-, we awaken from this torpor, ready to question ourselves anew about the meaning of our existence and our time, constantly poised between shadow and light, silence and revelation, lightness and obsession.
SOLO SHOWS
2021
Érebos,
curated by Camilla Remondina and Melania Raimondi, in collaboration with Iaga contemporary art, Fondazione l'Arsenale, Iseo
2020
Nights like Lights,
curated by L.Conti, Poliart Contemporary, Milano (catalog)
2019
Rivelazioni
from an idea of A.Perobelli,
curated by Ilaria BIgnotti, Iaga Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (catalog)
Le Forme del Tempo
curated by di M.Maccarinelli and Kevin McManus, Fondazione Leonesia, Brescia
2016
Eadem Mutata Resurgo
from an idea by A.Perobelli, curated by W.Bonomi, Iaga Contemporary Art Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (catalog)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
>COMBAT PRIZE XIII Edition
finalists exhibition, Museo Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy
>MILLENNIALS
curated by Ilaria Bignotti, with Alice Faloretti, Manuel Gardina, Francesca Longhini, Giovanni Rossi, AAB, Brescia
>Constanza Kramer and Silvia Inselvini, duo show at Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany
>ANÀSTASI Turbamenti, immersioni, attese, rinascite. Armida Gandini, Silvia Inselvini, Camilla Marinoni, Miriam Montani, a cura di Marina Dacci, Matteo Galbiati, Leonardo Regano, Livia Savorelli, Nadia Stefanel, Raffaele Quattrone, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli , Pietrasanta, Italy
>IX VAF PRIZE finalists exhibition, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
>TAKE YOUR TIME, TONGYEONG TRIENNALE
curated by Daniel Kapelian, Tongyeong Triennale, Tongyeong, South Korea
>PARATISSIMA TALENTS, ARTiglieria Con/temporary Art Center, Torino, Italy
2021
>XV Arte Laguna finalists exhibition, Venezia Arsenale, Italy
>SANATORIUM curated by M.C.D’Angelo and S.Maietta, Paratissima, winner of Best N.I.C.E artist 2021and Best Talent Prize 2021, Torino, Italy
>ULTRAROMANTICISMO curated by the collective Ricognizioni sull’Arte, Palazzo Ducale Pavullo nel Frignano, Modena, Italy
>BEN ORMENESE E I SUOI TEMPI curated by Leonardo Conti, Municipal Art Gallery of Gaeta, Latina, Italy
>THE CIRCLE curated by CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2020
>Rilevamenti2, curated by Bruno Corà, with V.Catricalà, T.Evangelista, A.Iori, A.Tecce, M.Tonelli, CaMusAC, Cassino
>Rigenerazioni, curated by Ilaria Bignotti, Mauro Corradini, Giovanna Galli, Anna Lisa Ghirardi, Giampaolo Guiotto, Fausto Lorenzi, Galleria AAB, Brescia
>GestoZero, Istantanee 2020, from an idea of Maurizio Donzelli and curated by Ilaria Bignotti insieme ad ACME Art Lab, Giorgio Fasol and Matteo Galbiati. Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona
2019
>Geminantis ,with L.Renna. Curated by M.Raimondi, with the supervision of I.Bignotti, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia (catalog).
2018
>Generations, curated by Ilaria Bignotti, with S.Fineschi, N.Genn, S.Infranco, S.Ko, V.Vázquez, Marignana Arte, Venezia (catalog).
2015
>Biennale Giovani Monza, curated by A.Bernardini, I.Bignotti, F.Cavallucci, C.Cerritelli, E.Grazioli (catalog).
>Ricerche nel quotidiano, A.Francolino, Afran e Silvia Inselvini a confronto, curated by Andrea Dall’Asta SJ, I.Bignotti, M.Galbiati, M.Tavola, Galleria san Fedele, Milano (catalog).
2014
>La creazione, Visual Art Prize San Fedele 2013/2014, curated by A. Dall’Asta SJ, Galleria San Fedele Milano, tutors and curators special mention, Galleria San Fedele, Milano (catalog)
>Learned by Heart,
with Airin Toscani, curated by Elisabetta Scigliano, Galleria Adiacenze, Bologna
2012
>E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle: il viaggio, finalist
Visual Art Prize San Fedele 2012, curated by Andrea Dall’Asta S.I., Galleria San Fedele, Milano, (catalog)
>L’uomo- le tradizioni” Biennale Roncaglia Prize under25 2012, San Felice sul Panaro,
curated by I.Bignotti, A.Mariotti, E.Modena, V.Rossi, M.Scotti, D.Tozzi, Teatro Comunale, San Felice sul Panaro
AWARDS
2022
>XIII Combat prize finalist with the work Notturni
2021
>XV Arte Laguna Finalist with the work Notturni
>PARATISSIMA winner of Best Talent 2021 and Best N.I.C.E Artist 2021
2020
>IX VAF Prize finalist with the work Notturni
>Arteam Cup VI, finalist with the work Notturni, winner of Bonelli Arte Prize
>Ducato Prize, finalist with the work Notturni
2019
>Arteam Cup V, finalist with the work Notturni and winner of the Espoarte Prize
>Combat Prize X Edition Graphic Section Winner with the work Notturni
2015
>Biennale Giovani Monza
Rottapharm Biotech Prize, with the work I Giorni
2014
>Visual Art Prize San Fedele, La creazione . Curators-tutors special mention
2012
>Biennale Roncaglia Prize under25, “L’uomo- le tradizioni” San Felice sul Panaro, Winner
>Visual Art Prize San Fedele, E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle – Il viaggio, Finalist
