Pierpaolo Lista | Gino Sabatini Odoardi | Adrian Tranquilli curated by Antonello Tolve
opening | Saturday 28 March 6.30 pm – duration | 28 March – 28 April
The Kyro Art Gallery in Pietrasanta is pleased to present Imagina, a group exhibition that opens on 28 March at 6 pm with works by Pierpaolo Lista, Gino Sabatini Odoardi and Adrian Tranquilli, in which the figurative is pushed beyond its limits to transform into hint and accent, in the freedom of a space where the gesture, mark, shape or object become the raw material of thought.
Starting from existence that, for Heidegger, is framed within the way of being of the finite entity that is man, Imagina presents itself as a reflection on the essence of things, on iconic conformations whose elevated communicative potential concentrates within itself an emotional attachment, a visual sharing and a strong understanding of co-existence. The works of Pierpaolo Lista, Gino Sabatini Odoardi and Adrian Tranquilli are instantly recognisable for their clear connection to everyday objects and situations. The magnetism of the path they trace constantly shifts the focus from the familiar to the out-of-the-ordinary into the open horizon of a possible experience where reality is a pretext for new visual adventures.
In revisiting and recharging the etymological root of ‘imaginari’ (i.e. depicting), which derives from ‘imago-imagĭnis’ and is strongly interconnected with that of ‘imitari’ (to imitate), the exhibition revolves around the act of creating a mental picture as an archetypal dimension of the image, understood not only as representation, but also as presence, apparition, trace, revelation of a visible charged with further visibility.
With Imagina, the poetics of the three artists interact with each other in an exhibition that alternates between solidity and rarefaction, monumentality and silence, body and absence, to define the work as part of a constant transformation and redefinition of reality. If with Lista, the object is left in the silence of waiting to make an impression on the viewer who is invited to activate it with their gaze or even with their body, transforming the work into a testimony of a direct grasp of time, with Sabatini Odoardi, the entire territory of everyday life becomes a distorted mirror of a reality deliberately sabotaged, pushed along ironic lines that invest the model-world with alienating reflective layers and with objective dynamics deafly illuminated from within. From a perspective that draws on the Greek mimesis, Adrian Tranquilli explores the fragility of the contemporary hero and the crisis of the founding myths of Western culture: suspended, majestic yet at the same time vulnerable. His figures evoke a collective imagination that is cracking, dramatizing a lucid tension between fall and possibility of redemption.
