For years now, I have concentrated daily on the ascetic practice of erasing all traces of white from my A4 sheets of paper, with a relentless gesture of completely covering them with strokes of ballpoint pens. This erasure, by successive layers, gives rise to a new iridescent-oily uniformity, at first only blue or black, now also magenta and red, and the reiterated movements of the hand and wrist are charged with that sacredness typical of meditative rituals to which I openly appeal to counterbalance our frenetic present. In the act of erasing white, Time expands, and it becomes the very matter of the work. It is, however, in the final composition on the panel that the gesture-mantra manifests itself in its entirety: the sheets are chosen and placed side by side so that an alchemy is created that is capable of opening up to an infinite continuity beyond the space of the work. A revealing light emerges from the darkness and that gesture that is born intimate offers itself to the public, urging it to stop and interrupt the alienation of which mass society is victim in the age of the visual. To the bulimia of images and visual chaos, I oppose a silent, slow abstraction: by subtracting figurative elements, recognisable forms or signs, I leave room for a greater awareness of the void and the unrepresented, inviting the observer to a moment of contemplation and introspection. In a contemporaneity so immersed and submerged in the continuous flow of images, the very meaning of vision is annulled. Therefore, through the processes of subtraction and then introspection, and abandoning our natural inclination to gestalt perception in favour of more intuitive and evocative sensations, I emphasise the need to develop new modes of resistance and reflection that can restore depth to the visual experience.
SOLO SHOWS
2024
L'Estetica del Silenzio, GARE82, Brescia
2023
Notturni,
galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Pietrasanta, Italy
Il crepuscolo degli uomini,
curated by Beatrice Benedetti, with the collaboragtion of IAGA contemporary art, Muzeul de Arta, Cluj Napoca, Romania
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
2024
>24!Questions for the concrete Present, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany
>In Motion, with Camille Hannah, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg
>Per Grazia Ricevuta, a cura di Alberto Mattia Martini, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milano
2023
>Be the difference with art 2023, finalists exhibition, Museo Canova, Possagno, Italy
>IX VAF PPRIZE, finalists exhibition, Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy
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
2023
>Be the difference with art 2023, winner
>Premio Nocivelli XV, finalist
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
