Bologna, at Palazzo Vizzani dialogue between the works of Stefano Arienti, Pierpaolo Campanini and Maurizio Mercuri

Palazzo Vizzani in Bologna opens, from January 24 to March 7, 2020, the exhibition Filigrana, which offers a dialogue between the mostly unpublished works of Stefano Arienti, Pierpaolo Campanini and Maurizio Mercuri.

The purpose of involving these three artists is to offer the public a theoretically and aesthetically researched exhibition itinerary. Indeed, the watermark, an ancient technique of imprinting visible on paper only in transparency or against the light, refers to the preciousness and wisdom of the artistic elaboration process, but it also symbolically constitutes the soul of the work of art that can manifest itself or remain quiet, waiting for a critical act able to reawaken it.

Stefano Arienti presents exclusively unpublished works, the result of his current research, which involves the printing of images, produced by the artist himself, on commonly used materials, such as chenille mats or poster paper expertly worked to achieve an almost sculptural rendering. In other series of works, the photographic surface is machine-stitched, the warp of the weft constituting the code-sign imprinted by the artist on his own work. Arienti makes use of a refined metamorphic language that allows him to manipulate the objects with which he measures himself, transforming them into a vehicle and support for forms and colors, at first glance not traceable to reality.

The works created by Pierpaolo Campanini dialogue with frescoes, textiles and wallpapers that decorate the rooms of Palazzo Vizzani: the painting becomes almost “heraldic” and infuses the exhibition itinerary with symbolic charge. Campanini’s interventions eschew the classification of “paintings” or “objects”: the artist accentuates the mimetic dimension of the works. One of these interventions contemplates the presence of a ’pre-existing work by Luca Bertolo, in a confrontation aimed at exploring the potential of pictorial language in measuring itself against an environmental context characterized by the action of time.

Sound, light and photography are the elements that qualify the presence in the exhibition of Maurizio Mercuri (who presents a substantial number of unpublished works), an artist endowed with a crystalline talent that allows him to formalize with immediacy the conceptual source of his artistic intuitions. Some of Mercuri’s installation works are measured with the same degree of magnificence as the rooms of Palazzo Vizzani, while other minimal interventions (some conceived as “travel works”) are almost embedded in the memory of the architectural structures.

The watermark is an expression of a layering of meaning, of a present on which an involuntary process of preservation/disintegration exerted by time affects, the same one that has allowed the environments of Palazzo Vizzani (whose artistic direction is entrusted to Camilla Sanguinetti) to keep its essence intact.

The exhibition is curated by Fulvio Chimento and is promoted and organized by theAlchemilla Association in collaboration with Associazione Controcorrente as part of ART CITY Segnala 2020 and on the occasion of Arte Fiera.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Alchemilla Association.

Pictured: Stefano Arienti, Rete arancio (2019), digital print on microcinilla, 135 x 182 cm.

Bologna, at Palazzo Vizzani dialogue between the works of Stefano Arienti, Pierpaolo Campanini and Maurizio Mercuri

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