This solo show of Sergio Ceccotti aims to trace, from a body of paintings from the last five decades, some of the key elements which form the framework of his painting since the end of the 1950s: cinema, thriller, voyeurism, metropolitan anxiety, contemporary alienation.
Sergio Ceccotti investigates the mystery of banality hidden in bourgeois interiors, hotel rooms and recognizable Roman or Parisian streets. His complex work, because real and fictional, narrative and elliptical, filled with seriousness and off-beat humour, gives rise to an enigmatic unquietness, to a questioning of the visible, which led writer Philippe Soupault to consider him the painter of the "unusual everyday".
A filmed interview and a text by Julie Borgeaud - to download below - accompany the exhibition, by putting in perspective the works shown with other emblematic paintings from his corpus. Art historian and curator (Louis Soutter - Victor Hugo, La Maison Victor Hugo, Paris, 2015; Louis Soutter, le tremblement de la modernité, La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2011), she is also a director and film editor and, for the need of reconstituting the dismantled notebooks of Swiss artist Louis Soutter, she takes different techniques used in Forensic science in which she was trained. It is through her journey marked by common affinities with Ceccotti's painting that Julie Borgeaud attempts to draw out the multiple issues of such a work in the contemporary artistic landscape.
