Curated by Margherita de Pilati and Ivan Quaroni, the exhibition showed how, since the Eighties, much of Italian art has worked seemingly “against its own time,” forging an irregular, intermittent, or deliberately anachronistic relationship with history with works that don’t fully belong to either yesterday or today, inhabiting a liminal space where visual memory is constantly being reassembled, interrupted, or slowed down.
"Andrea Mastrovito’s work is based on the layering of images and materials that transform drawing into a tool for interpreting reality. In the work "Qui non siamo da nessuna parte" (2016), the surface of the light box is constructed through the juxtaposition of transparent rulers on which the artist works with a lithographic pencil. The diagram of colored vertical segments created by the artist depicts a natural landscape, where children climb trees and play with geometric shapes that evoke the mysterious polyhedron of Albrecht Dürer’s Melancholia."
(Ivan Quaroni, exhibition catalogue)
Featured artists:
Alberto Abate, Gianantonio Abate, Giulia Andreani, Diana Aparo, Ubaldo Bartolini, Giuditta Branconi, Dario Brevi, Chiara Calore, Arduino Cantafora, Guglielmo Castelli, Gianni Cella, Sandro Chia, Martina Cinotti, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Vanni Cuoghi, Bruno d’Arcevia, Paolo De Biasi, Andrea Di Marco, Fulvio Di Piazza, Stefano Di Stasio, Christian Fogarolli, Omar Galliani, Paola Gandolfi, Mimmo Germanà, Jacopo Ginanneschi, Innocente, Marcello Jori, Marco Lodola, Carlo Maria Mariani, Andrea Mastrovito, Aldo Mondino, Gian Marco Montesano, Nicola Nannini, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Michele Parisi, Plumcake, Umberto Postal, Andrea Ravo Mattoni, Max Rohr, Salvo, Nicola Samorì, Paolo Ventura, Nicola Verlato, Francesco Vezzoli, Massimiliano Zaffino.