Ágrapha

ÁGRAPHA

Curated by Andrea Romagnoli with a critical text by Angelica Speroni

The exhibition includes a selection of the artist’s latest works, designed for a site-specific intervention at Curva Pura.

The concepts of evolution and transformation are the basis of her research, both on a conceptual and formal level. The ongoing study and documentation of processes linked to the transformation of matter – plant fibres and naturally derived colours – are the main focus of creativity; this practice leads the artist to confront the unpredictability of outcomes and to reflect on the relativity of time and space in which matter is transforming.

“Virginia Lorenzetti is a researcher. Her work does not propose any doctrine or enforce constructed images. Instead, it shows a path she travelled in her research, which remains open, pointing toward an infinity. It is an authentic statement that talks about Being, which does not finish in the communication but participates in what is known and, at the same time, alludes to the unspoken. We must remember that the work of art, recovering a Gadamerian definition, is an exemplary, non-methodical experience of Truth and an encounter between the meaning and the understanding. The language of art lends itself to understanding precisely because it establishes a relationship with something non-linguistic that allows one to go back from the word to what the word means, showing precisely the boundary space of the human intellect. The outcomes of Virginia’s research remain silent, á-grapha (non-written), like the verbal doctrines that Plato did not deem to be fixed in writing. “Writing is like painting, words and images cannot answer the reader’s or observer’s questions or shed doubts or deny false interpretations” (Phaedrus); they are a univocal, fixed image that calls to mind but does not impose any practice, any discipline, any áskesis, precisely, “research”.
In this exhibition, the many works are like so many variations of the same subject; they cohabit, interweaving an enthralling and secret plot in space. Working with simple materials, paper, canvas and colours that she obtains from plants or other natural elements, the artist also recovers a technical – but never rigid – dimension of art making that gives her work a total cosmic harmony. Technical research proceeds by the degrees of the logical-intellectual process, and Virginia proceeds together on the formal and aesthetic levels. The research into materials that she has been carrying out for years has led her to experiment with paper and its transformations (which, despite her explorations of other materials, remains her favourite medium) and colour of natural derivation, both characterised by fragility and ephemeral immanence in space and time.”

Angelica Speroni (excerpt from the critical text)

Opening hours:
Tuesday / 18.00 – 20.30
Thursday / 18.30 – 21.00
other days by appointment