Organic fantastic
Casini | Morigi | Pierobon | Roma | Savinio | Scodro | Sutherland
The exhibition project, curated by Pasquale Fameli and Valentina Rossi, explores form and matter as a process of continuous transformation; the works on display emerge from a biomorphic imaginary in which human, vegetal, animal, and mineral elements intertwine, giving rise to hybrid, unstable figures in constant mutation. The reference to Surrealism here is not intended as a historical homage, but rather as tangible evidence that it remains an active system in which “the surreal dimension re-emerges as a critical practice capable of suspending the apparent certainties of reality and rearticulating the conditions of its intelligibility. Rather than offering an escape, it produces a displacement: a necessary distance through which imagination can once again operate as a form of knowledge.” [see the curators’ critical essay in the catalogue]
David Casini assembles organic and geometric elements into enigmatic dispositifs suspended between Wunderkammer, historical memory, and symbolic imagination; Caterina Morigi engraves marble and onyx with fossil-like and archaic signs, transforming stone into living organic memory; Marta Pierobon creates hybrid, fairy-tale ceramic sculptures poised between familiarity, estrangement, and organic imagination; Alessandro Roma intertwines painting, textile, and ceramics into stratified landscapes, living organisms traversed by continuous transformation and memory; Alberto Scodro transforms matter and minerals through combustion and crystallization, generating alchemical, unstable, autonomous, and vital forms.
The works of Alberto Savinio and Vivian Graham Sutherland, from the Artistic Heritage of Unipol Group, enter the exhibition path as genealogical presences and visionary accomplices: within their images, objects, landscapes, and organisms deform until they lose their traditional boundaries, and it is precisely along this line that the research of the contemporary artists takes root. The exhibition thus proposes a fluid environment in which the metamorphosis of the organic becomes the original condition of form, while the fantastic emerges as a means of questioning the present, an intensification of reality that becomes a critical tool for rethinking a world in constant becoming.
