Opening Friday 28th April
6-9pm @ Luisa Catucci Gallery (former Cell63)
Allerstr 38, 12049 Berlin
Back to the roots: this is where Francesco Geronazzoâs exhibition in our Project room is going to bring us.
The show will present a selection rootsâ tracings made of ceramic chalk, monotypes made with gold chalcographic ink and blue pigments on flimsly paper together with other works made on textile material.
Seeds, stones, small shrubs, roots: these are just some of the natural elements that always recur in Francesco Geronazzoâs artistic practice.
Reinventing an ancient technique like that of printmaking art, Geronazzo creates poetic pictures where his artisan and manual working method gives rise to an authentic âaesthetic of imperfectionâ.
In contrast with that process of production and reproduction of images offered by modern technologies, Geronazzo creates etchings, sculptures and installations where traces of nature and lifetime memories fuse themselves in a very slow and delicate creative process.
Typically associated to the idea of origin and source, roots become, in the works of Francesco Geronazzo a sort of bridge between past and future.
Coming directly from Australia, a country where the artist spent a long period of time, these natural elements not only represent a kind of turning point in the artistsâ life and artistic experience, but also work as symbols of a new beginning, being related to a place where to possibly settle down and start a new life.