SUBLIME PAINTING- A persistent generation - Bressan, Casiraghi, Costantini, Negri, Pellegrini, Vicentini Thu 18 October 2012 - Sat 24 November 2012

The exhibition offers a reflection about the state of aniconic and primary painting through the researches of six of the most meaningful artists of the generation born in the Fifties, that emerged already in the late Seventies, that met with success on the art scene over the last three decades.

This specific side of painting communicates a sense of belonging to the endless disclosures of colour, a deep and distant intensity from the widespread approximations of painting, a fully autonomous position as against the many linguistic temptations that are typical of present times.

“The diversified experience of these artists – Claudio Cerritelli, the curator, points out – is an endless exploration of the imaginative structures of the painted space, no thematic entertainment is possible, there is just the stubborn modesty to paint the energy of colour itself, the unattainable movements of thought. Thus that is a sublime painting, unveiled through images next to the invisible, irreversible shapes that look like the event of their appearance and in this direction, light is the real subject with no references, the only path towards vision, through the many identities of the artists.

Italo Bressan (Vezzano-Trento, 1950) builds up the image through emersions and iridescences of colour, following the fluctuating rhythm of the matter,  Roberto Casiraghi (Milan, 1957) makes the image vibrate in the coexistence of shapes that evoke disorientations and  unknown horizons,  Sonia Costantini (Mantua 1956) investigates the physicality of the pigment to give back to the surface variations and  imperceptible jolts of light, Graziano Negri (Azzahra-Lybia, 1957) explores the indefinite wavering of colour through superimpositions and minimum differences in matter,  Gianni Pellegrini (Riva del Garda, 1953) combines in the same image different thresholds of shadow as source of light disclosure,  Giorgio Vicentini (Varese, 1951) fixes appearences that wander into space, space fancies playing with ambivalences of raw colour.

On this occasion a catalogue with critical text by Claudio Cerritelli will be published, a photographic reproduction of the works on show and bio-bibliographic infos.