On Friday, September 19, at 5 p.m., the ArtEkyp Gallery in Modena, Italy, opens the solo exhibition of Fabio Adani (Correggio, 1974) entitled Nel Divenire. The Fading of the Messenger. The exhibition, which can be visited until Sept. 27, is curated by Francesca Baboni and produced by ArtEkyp Open Studio, and will be presented in the presence of the artist and the curator. The exhibition is within the third Festival line, focusing on a theme that intertwines metamorphosis and discrete presence: that of the messenger.
The project focuses on the human being as a subject in constant transformation, emphasizing how the path of personal growth never occurs in isolation. On the contrary, along this process there are figures who accompany the individual without interfering with his or her development. The messenger represents precisely this role: a presence that may appear angelic or supernatural, but always maintains a non-invasive relationship with the human subject, facilitating metamorphosis without overpowering it.
“Human self-determination occurs through the manifestation of awareness, often through mediators that speed the path,” writes curator Francesca Baboni. "The passage between the media and the message implies in fact a conscious mediation. In the artist’s new series of works, which have the human figure at their center, The Messenger who enters as an angelic or supernatural presence but standing ’alongside’ the human being, in a non-invasive way, becomes a protagonist and part of the human evolutionary process. Its role is to deliver a message and remain invisible or self-annihilating, always under the banner of an expected reciprocity. The artist dwells on the human subject shown during this journey in stages, represented at first as an evanescent silhouette that will later become Presence and Concreteness, contrasted with the incoming one that on the contrary gradually fades away.
The lump of salt that is concentrated in the center of the body is the formless matter that is being conformed, the primordial soup that shows itself as knowledge and thought, the information that the subject must receive and adapt to create its path of self-construction and personal evolution, while The Messenger becomes embodied and becomes a person, leaving behind an immaterial presence. In the three triptychs, the conceptual centerpiece of the exhibition, on the sides are the evanescent message bearers, in the center the man/pupil glowing with gold leaf as he lives by his own light and illuminates the figuration, showing himself above the preparatory background at first rough that gradually becomes smooth.
From emptiness we then move on to agglomeration, which is a symptom of something inner that is flowing, turbulently, finally arriving at formation and human shining in the light of awareness. The medium flanks to leave a trace and then later steps back and disappears. Like an angel he announces, like the biblical prophets. He prophesies the word and abandons. He empties himself to give the one who absorbs the clarifying message."
Adani explores the dialectic between presence and disappearance through the depiction of human figures emerging and vanishing. In the works, the visitor initially observes an evanescent silhouette that gradually takes on concreteness and visibility. In parallel, other figures fade away, highlighting the principle that the function of the messenger is not to impose itself, but to retreat to allow the subject in formation to assert itself. This interplay between presence and fading becomes the conceptual core of the exhibition, a reflection on the relationship between guidance and autonomy within human life.
The choice to focus on the messenger responds to the thematic line of the Festival, which involves the investigation of figures who enter human life to communicate a message without becoming protagonists in the path of others. The artist, in his own interpretation, focused on the human figure in the process of metamorphosis, showing how outward presence can be variable and temporary. The initially evanescent silhouette becomes a concrete presence, while other figures disappear, symbolizing the role of the messenger as an entity that facilitates change from the outside, without exerting pressure or domination.
The exhibition thus stands as a conceptual analysis of dynamics of relationship and transformation, where the presence of the other serves as a stimulus, but not a constraint. The exhibition itinerary invites the audience to confront the transience and function of intermediary roles in the life of the individual, highlighting the complexity of relationships that do not impose one’s existence, but support it. The theme of the messenger is thus declined in a series of representations that oscillate between corporeality and fading, with the aim of making visible the principle of metamorphosis intrinsic to every human subject.
The exhibition will remain open to the public according to the ArtEkyp Gallery’s exhibition calendar, offering visitors the opportunity to observe how the artist translates into images the theory of discrete presence and the messenger as a supporting figure for individual transformation. The combination of conceptual approach and visual realization allows to return a multilevel reading of the theme, in which the messenger does not compete with the human subject, but accompanies its becoming in a silent and modulated manner.
Fabio Adani lives and works in Correggio. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and collaborates with galleries and curators both in Italy and abroad, receiving numerous awards. His artistic research is oriented toward an almost total rarefaction of the image, giving life to a silent and mystical painting, of neo-metaphysical matrix, devoted to impalpability and transparency. The works are developed through evocative nuances, designed to represent first the idea or concept and only then their concretization, with the aim of transfiguring reality through a calibrated use of light.
Hours during festivalfilosophy: Friday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 21, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
After the festival, the exhibition will be open until Sept. 27
Daily 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.; Closed Thursday afternoon
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| In Modena, Fabio Adani's exhibition on the figure of the messenger and human metamorphosis |
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