COELVM: Prima Sala
By art director (12/06/2007 – 12:21)
The exhibition’s staging for this year followed criteria of assonance and contrast between the different languages and messages that artists use to communicate.
The sky with its suggestions; religion, as spiritual research up to psychological and more interior analysis are the pillars of this review of contemporary art.
In the central room (the first room), the main one, we find the works of Jake Baddeley, Alberto D’assumpçao, and Raluca Misca. These three artists represent three different languages and three different ways of expressing the themes of the exhibition.
D’Assumpçao moves through abstract and rationalistic forms with solid and decisive colors, creating a musical and mystical vision of the universe. Spheres and planes that link together lead us to that mysterious, magical and unknown universe that intrigues the seeker of truth.
The artist also hints at a solution to the age-old dispute between mystical strength and rational-scientific strength by drawing the church’s windows in the background.
For example, Jake Baddeley expresses himself with figuration using an iconography drawn from tradition, halfway between the decorative and the romantic. His works are modern allegories of religious concepts, ideas, or depictions of celestial stars. They are images that give other answers to the age-old gap between science and religion. Baddeley leans towards the transcendent, and the sky for him is a place populated by mythological and spiritually charged figures. They are almost like shovels of arcana to be read and interpreted to reveal our future, to give us some answers.
Finally, Raluca Misca introduces us to the psychological dimension that this exhibition offers. It seems that the artist looks into his soul through the distorting lenses of a kaleidoscope, in which emotions are mixed in a thousand shades of color, and only some figurative elements allow us to grasp the general meaning of the work. They are light works in which the air passes through them and seems to shake them and bring them to life. Some artists seem more interested in understanding themselves and their psyche rather than scanning the sky in search of answers or contacts with the divine.