ABC-ARTE confirms its vocation to promote contemporary art, exploring new ways and ideas of communication, where creative languages meet and develop each other.
This is how the project in partnership with MARYLING, Italianleading female clothing retailer, has been conceived. Thanks to the opening of the new MARYLING shop in Piazza Gae Aulenti 1, a new multi-purpose space where fashion will be connected with design, art and food, our gallery will present a series of exhibitions organised by Ivan Quaroni in a dedicated area of this new space.
ABC-ARTE is pleased to invite you to the opening of this new collaboration: the solo exhibition by Paolo Bini, Behind the visible, at the new MARYLING space, Piazza Gae Aulenti 1, 7pm to 11pm. The exhibition will be open until August 30th 2015.
Eleven works by Bini will be displayed. By Ivan Quadroni’s opinion, the artist created an original working method, combining a formal analysis of reality with the emotional content of the image.
The starting point is a real image, mainly a landscape or something morphologically concrete, which may be felt and therefore shared. This is later reduced to its essential elements – structure, colour, emotion – and then inserted in a basically Cartesian organisation: gummed-paper modules put side by side to arrange vertical and horizontal diagrams.
Each stripe is painted and applied to the support, a canvas or a panel, as a singular grammatical element of a wider period, the phrase of a language built step by step.
The modules, distributed by a precise order, cover a homogeneous area and develop a complete structure. The result is the combination of actions which, in reality, become the synthesis of different languages, from the Lyrical abstraction to Neo Geo, from Minimalism to Conceptual art via Informalism and Action painting.
It could be described as a lyrical version of pattern painting, ambiguously suspended between the logic precision of analytical art and the chromatic and irrational explosions of abstract expressionism. It is also an operative platform, where the two main artistic waves of uniconic art of the XXth century ideally meet: the cold and rational and the hot and emotional.
At the core of everything there is colour. Colour translates the emotional geography of the landscapes seen and lived by the artist during his many trips in the Mediterranean, South Africa and continental Europe. It looks like a stratification of memories, a juxtaposition of temporal layers recognized as single memories, independent impressions put back together by the artist for a wide and more complex vision. There is something more than simply producing emotions through an optic perception. Beyond the horizon line of his rebuilt landscapes, between the orthogonal layouts of his smooth visions, lies the most mysterious enigma ever, the never answered question regarding the deepest nature of mankind.