MVTAFORMA, a collective exhibition promoted by Palazzo Atelié and curated by Elisabetta Moiraghi for DRIM Contemporary Art Ground opens on Friday 29 September at 6pm. In the setting of San Raffaele Cimena Alto, a charming village in the Turin area, the works by Lorenzo Fontana, Hetty Ann Laycock, Miriam Marafioti, and Beatrice Sacco will interact with the space and each other. MVTAFORMA aims to investigate the ‘plural-directionality’ of matter, considered as entity and brand of a thought as well as an action. In the belief that evolution from an original condition to a secondary one is the key element of the present, the state which defines the current, the exhibition intends to highlight that exact point of crisis, the precise moment in which the form is enhanced with meaning, becomes metamorphosis and determines a change. The changing aspect of the works of Fontana, Laycock, Marafioti and Sacco contributes to creating a circuit of symbols and visions: they are eclectic works that dialogue and harmonize in a new synthesis.
Lorenzo Fontana presents for the first time at MVTAFORMA an installation consisting of ten cyanotypes mounted on hanging easels. The paradox of post transposition extrapolated from Instagram and reproduced on the traditional paper format invites us to reflect on our ways of using images. Being used to “scrolling” pages on screens of small, over too bright and often damaged devices, in a hypothetical continuum without end, we have now lost the ability to concentrate and analyze when faced with one any image, even when it conveys ambiguous and delicate content. In an ironic tone, riguardiamo-ci forces us to consider the times of a conscious observation that the images, as means of communication, ask at their viewer.
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Beatrice Sacco’s project for MVTAFORMA develops in two directions. The photographic series was born from the development of a precise working method in the darkroom, which gave rise to prints alive in their three-dimensionality, a typical characteristic of sculpture, maintained in this case in two-dimensional format. By the overlap of pages from old magazines, the artist investigates the unexpected connections between icons, capable of highlight discriminatory messages, which the artist neutralizes and reconsiders ironic with the aim of inspiring different suggestions, new contents. The second series, dedicated to bruises, investigates the symbolism of this sign of the body, a metaphor for pain and time, a symbol of violence and at the same time of healing. A sketchbook for tattoos, markings on synthetic leather, photographs of bodies bearing bruises of others: these are works that talk about the possibility of eternalizing the pain of others, experiencing the shock wave on our own flesh.
Palazzo Atelie
San Raffaele Cimena Alto, Italy
