The Istituto centrale per la grafica hosts in the rooms of Palazzo Poli an exhibition by Alessandro Papetti, titled Io abito qui.
In recent years the Institute has dedicated several exhibitions to artists who conceived site-specific works for our collections. Among the others: Mario Cresci (2011), Luca Pignatelli (2011), Antonio Biasucci (2013), Marco Tirelli (2013), Pasquale Ninì Santoro (2014), Giuseppe Stampone (2014) and Carlo Lorenzetti last spring. All these artists have one feature in common: they work on paper, a characteristic that has distinguished the Institute from its beginnings.
On the occasion of the Io abito qui, Papetti introduce 53 works: a series of new works on prepared paper, some very large sized, plus five large oil on canvas and a few site-specific works made at Palazzo Poli, the same spot where the artist had been painting from 21 to 25 September.
The theme of the exhibition is the interior, in the light of the latest research and experiments carried out by the artist. It is about a real exploration of content and container, therefore the subject and space containing it, in an attempt to go beyond the concept of visual knowledge and move towards a field of sensitive consciousness.
As Massimo Recalcati writes in his essay in the catalogue: "This is his distinctive signature style, to attend the border zone, the divide, the border that separates oblivion from memory; not only in the relationship with his masters and the memory of art history. His entire artistic work talks about the precarious balance that unites and divides time from memory".
Here Papetti describes his current research: "...everything that becomes a pictorial subject, with its physical being and its contents of data is what the archive of memory usually gives back, as memory historicizes knowledge. It is difficult to try to bring it forward, but I can come close to this concept by painting at the rythm of my thoughts before they crystallize into object and subject finished and done, keeping up with the continuous evolution of the messages of my mind, adapting and altering pictorially rythm and manner. As if the painted space was the interior of the mind and the objects contained in it were thoughts in becoming".
In the exhibition, a video by Francesco Papetti also recounts the genesis of the works on display.
