Disegno Specchio
exhibition
October 24th - November 5th 24 Ottobre - 5 Novembre
curated by Laura Santamaria and Chiara Milani
with a presentation of drawings by:
Paola Alborghetti, Susanna Janina Baumgartner, Gianni Caravaggio, Daniele Carpi, Barbara De Ponti, Daniele Girardi, Paolo Gonzato, Michele Guido, Giulio Lacchini, Chiara Pergola, Laura Santamaria, Marcello Tedesco, Lucia Veronesi.
and with an artist photo by Alessandro Di Giampietro - Untitled #8 - from the series Lightning Portraits, 2015 and other photographs from the Drawings from Lightning archives
in-conversation event
October 27th 5:30 pm 27 Ottobre dalle 17:30
Drawings From Lightning, In-conversation event
with the interventions:
Roberto Borghi, critic; Chiara Milani, bibliologist and iconologist; the artists Laura Santamaria, Paolo Gonzato; Jessica Tanghetti, curator and researcher; Giulio Verago, curator.
Moderated by Laura Santamaria
INSIGHTS
The Project: Drawings From Lightning is an artistic reflection on lightning, a characteristic event of the Lake Como area due to the high frequency with which storm phenomena develop, it was investigated by scientists such as Alessandro Volta, who represented it through the autograph drawing.
In the past, drawing was a widely used tool in the documentation of natural phenomena or geometric and empirical transcriptions, used by astronomers such as Galileo Galilei or philosophers such as Giordano Bruno, an integral part of the professionalism of researchers.
The lightning was therefore chosen as the emblem of the Drawings From Lightning project, which focuses on contemporary drawing, a line of light and energy, the subject of the interpretations of the invited artists.
With this project Laura Santamaria returns to Como - her place of origin - after being the protagonist of a ten-year tour, which took him to art centers both in Italy and in Europe.
The Disegno Specchio exhibition collects unpublished works generating new paradigms linked to the production of drawing in the most experimental and contemporary declinations, accompanied by the limited edition showing prints from the first collection of drawings from the Drawings from Lightning project, artist book (self-published 2016). The body of works is gathered around the metaphor of lightning, as a symbol of vital and energetic recognition, the light of new reflections, both immediate and urgent, around the role of the artist within contemporaneity.
The language of drawing is favored by artists to express their intuitions, generating new codes, evidence of a process that abandons the academic modality of copying from life to generate suggestions through new tools and open a dialogue that invites us to consider how much drawing be an instrument of inner vision, of perception of abstract thought and a device that generates new graphic formulations.
Capable of weaving relationships, artistic production can be understood as an entity generating a vital contribution in the evolution of languages, attributing new meanings to reference codes, while at the same time generating a virtuous circuit between public institutions, museums, libraries and archives. The drawing in the broad formulations proposed by the project determines a unique episode in contemporary art, and directs the gaze to this practice which presents itself as a haven of authenticity and rigor within the technical and media convulsions of the contemporary panorama.
The conference: Drawings from Lightning - In-conversation event aims in a broad and discursive way to reconnect and deepen the reflections generated during the presentation event of Drawings From Lightning at the Museo del 900 in Milan, on 11 October 2023, opening new reflections in the headquarters of the Municipal Library of Como, which highlight emblematic aspects of the creation of a collection of works now part of the public heritage within the Museum's collection, through the presentation of unpublished drawings and the artist book recently donated to the Library's assets.
Biblioteca P. Borsellino Municipal Library Como, Piazzetta Venosto Lucati, 1
entrata gratuita durante le ore di apertura della Biblioteca - Free entry during Library hours
From Monday to Friday: 9.30am - 7pm; Saturday 2.00pm - 7.00pm
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