LuogoArteContemporanea

LuogoArteContemporanea hosts the works of the artist Giulia Ferrarese, who covers the spaces with her dreamlike vision of the natural world. His creations combine animal and vegetal reality with fantastic suggestions deriving from an amalgam of myths and folklore between East and West that characterizes his artistic research.

DOLCE COME IL MIELE («Sweet as honey») illustrates the mystery and charm of the evolutionary mechanisms of colorful orchid flowers through brushstrokes that combine botanical evidence and creative flair, in a generative process presided over by hybrid ancestral divinities. The singular - and sometimes anthropomorphic - appearance of the corollas suggests the intervention of a primordial energy in shaping their shape, bringing men and plants closer together.

The fantastic representation of the phenomenon of mimesis of plant organisms is followed by a body of work focused on the supernatural character of the peculiarities of some animals, underlining the magical connections that develop between different species - including man. The fox (Kitsune), in particular, is a recurring subject in Giulia Ferrarese's research who, similarly to the figure of the shaman - catalyst of embodied energies, means and guide to the transformations of the animal world and their transmission to the human context - explores this horizon of mystical interactions.

 

 

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Part of the displayed works focus on the supernatural character of the peculiarities of some animals, emphasizing the magical connections that develop between different species - including man. The fox (Kitsune), in particular, is a recurring subject in Giulia Ferrarese's research who, similarly to the figure of the shaman - catalyst of embodied energies, means and guide to the transformations of the animal world and their transmission to the human context - explores this horizon theriomorph of mystical interactions. In Japanese culture, the fox is a highly intelligent being capable of developing supernatural powers, including the ability to change appearance and take on human form, as in the famous koan (Chinese 公案, Japanese 公庵) “The fox of Baizhang” (Mumonkan, “The door without a door”, a famous text by Rinzai Zen). The colors of its coat change in accordance with the cosmic energies that dialogue with the interiority of the animal. 

This is followed by a body of work that illustrates the mystery and fascination of the evolutionary mechanisms of colorful orchid flowers through brushstrokes that combine botanical evidence and creative flair, in a generative process presided over by hybrid ancestral divinities. Pollination has led plants to use birds and insects to be fertilized and for this purpose many of them have colors and shapes that are attractive to these animals, triggering in some cases a particular phenomenon of mimesis. Orchid flowers, in particular, resemble small beings with an anthropomorphic profile, butterflies, wasps, bumblebees, bees and all kinds of flying creatures, in order to offer nourishment in exchange for pollination. Nourishment that recalls a loving dance between the open buds and the winged visitors attracted by their chromatic and odorous characteristics. The singular aspect of the corollas, in fact, suggests the intervention of a primitive energy in shaping their shape, bringing men and plants closer together. 

The female figure who represents this passionate ballet of contact and interaction processes between the animal and vegetable world is Sualidù - incarnation of the spirit of love that permeates everything (in the second room). She is crowned with peacock feathers as in the depictions of some meditation deities (Yidam) of Tibetan Buddhism, and has a veil around her neck; her skin is dotted and material, a dynamic membrane of passage, and her dress with hypnotic movement, channeling the energies of the chthonic, underground, magmatic world of the Earth, acts as a door and access to this world. Her head is adorned with graphic signs that recall the representations of Chinese clouds. 

The second room deals with the theme of thought and the representation of the forces that animate and direct it, through intuited ideograms that emerge naturally between the artist's fingers, like a visual sound that recalls the East, in the form of a flow (roll and leporello) and in a more stable and cohesive form in the tables where brain sections and neuronal pathways appear on fractal variations. 

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～ Giulia Ferrarese, 2023

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DOLCE COME IL MIELE 

site-specific exhibition by Giulia Ferrarese

03.05 - 17.05.2023

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Opening

Wednesday 3 May, 5 pm

 

Finissage

Monday 15 May, 5 pm

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