EXHIBITION n.92
EXHIBITION TITLE : CHROMOCOSMO
ARTIST: DANIELE GIRARDI
CURATED BY: MAURIZIO SCIACCALUGA
PERIOD: 21 MAY - 30 JULY 2005

From the 21st of May to the 30th of July, the gallery, La Giarina, presents the latest project by Daniele Girardi, young exponent of the leading-edge of Italian research, both in terms of technique and themes. Fifteen works that tell of the careful modifications of images, of the search for the secrets that hide behind the banal appearance. Girardi’s work, born in Verona 1977, divided between his birth city and Milan, the critic Maurizio Sciaccaluga writes in the catalogue that “interrupts happy and worry free time of infancy, fell without a parachute to the teenage image in the cruel and violent world, inhospitable, that man had already created on the earth. In the hands of the young varied artist puppets and toys, plastic animals and gadgets for children become - not to mention the instrument for a painting with and without brushes, and not to mention the material of a new and absolutely original mixture and form - the concrete and tangible symbol of how innocence is inevitably destined to succumb and disappear, the indisputable demonstration of the inconsistency of every dream and hope. A definite and definable technique in the work of the artist does not exist. Or better, all the techniques, one up another, alternating, mixed, shook-up and remade at exaggeration. At the beginning there is the ready-made, the recovery and re-visiting of everyday objects, to create a strange visionary sculpture, a curious ironic scenery able to give the world a fantasy and fairytale vision. Then comes the photographs, that in this blessed and false world and captures only a minimal part, a fraction, to reveal which frame of contradiction, absurdity and confusion can hide under the faint peel of the shape. Digitally scanned the photographic image passes, in several phases, though the tools of the computer, through painting, through printing acids, to suffer a series of surgical operations designed to gut it, undo it and turn it upside down. It is as if the author wants to pull out the insides and the soul of those objects, showing them from the inside, telling of the DNA.