EXHIBITION n.88
ARTIST: ADRIANO NARDI
CURATED BY: GABRIELE PERRETTA
PERIOD: 9 OCTOBER - 27 NOVEMBER 2004

The image of contemporary is made of fitted and unfitted knowledge, that feels the effects of the thousands of daily contaminations produced and suffered. It, in its multiplicity, responds to a diligent need of presence and diffusion, distribution, relation, metamorphous, mutation, connection and other devilry that hides itself in the medial universe. In one word, never more than now the image is body and mind. The contemporary image offers itself to the user as a higher kind, agile, economic, representative and maybe even excessive or at a peak, but easily accessible, because it is cured by super-design that has entered in competition with the artists. Starting form this context La Giarina, a contemporary art gallery, presents a personal exhibition by Adriano Nardi where there are nine works gathered together which have been made in recent years and four new works made just for this occasion. Nardi’s work brings a metal-linguistic mixture between the digital techniques of representation and oil painting: reflects as the centre on which it reflects the extremes of visionary beauty and concept. Seducing bodies and radiant colours, geometric feminity and a thin objectiveness as if to say: “substantially the painting is organic and this its truth, lies in a simple ecological gesture of the manual technique (and of its materials)”. Nardi, in the last oil paintings on canvas, tends to purify his glance, suggesting that “representing Painting might be possible if we consider it like the ready-made definitive. If the woman of my paintings embodies a metal-linguistic iconography she is Painting”. Hence, substantially e conceptually, here would painted the Painting and her, to reach this excess, he adopts overflow techniques that often reveal “Fatal” like the women that all appear abundant from the “…Prima di Copertina..”: making available to be strongly crossed and suggesting by a thousand techniques, by a thousand genres, by numerous archaeologies e numerous strategies . . .

 

 

SELECTION OF SOME OF THE WORKS IN EXHIBITION