Maurizio Cilli. The indistinct borders

Over thirty new works, collages, objects and multiple artist make up a project room: "The indistinct borders", solo show of Maurizio Cilli, hosted by the gallery of Turin NOPX curated by Rebecca De Marchi. The work starts from suggestions that the artist took and reworked during his research for the project Stupefacio Diorama "Stupinigi fertile" and develops, through a long process of manipulation, to lead Cilli as an excuse to use some of the major literary events of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. A tribute to landscape and forms evoked in the original text, reinterpreted in a contemporary artist who, with a passion for ancient craftsman, meticulous assembles collages, drawings and small object trouvé.
[...] With a change of state came on the songwriting talents of Maurizio Cilli, in which the thought of your hand leaves the place of writing to a text made ??up of images that freely interpret the myths, caught in the act of metamorphosis, expanding some passages, summarizing narratives, aesthetising brutality of the passions and changes of matter imposed. As in Ovid, everything has its place, even the most vile violence, feeling more authoritarian, and the consequences are, as the causes, part of the same nature. The metamorphosis goes into labor-bellows Cilli to the processing of materials that seeks, collects, dries, collect, cut, connect, using pictorial touches. The Heliades, Cyane, Coronis, Batto, Medusa, Sisyphus, Cadmus and Harmony, Ixion, Actaeon, Mina, Flora take visible form, define a plan of cards that exceptionally universe expands to three-dimensional space, where the object representation becomes: is the If Callisto, Apollo and Daphne, Diana. The uniqueness of each individual work is also unique for its share little with the others in the series, while constituting a corpus whose name is in the subject, and in the extracts cultural, rather than in the forms. However, households appear to work, that we could gather so much depending on the kind of rhetoric that figurative works by icastici those symbolic or narrative; by references to science fiction, steampunk one projected in antiquity, the surrealist collages, classicism struggling with the unfinished and with the fragment of painting. For accomunarle the nature of sculptures minimum of a matter brought back to life [...] (Rebecca De Marchi)

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