MARGHERITA PAOLETTI & ENRICA BORGHI | Fandango
Aug 9, 2019 → Jul 22, 2019, Forte di Civezzano (Tagliata superiore)
Aug 9, 2019 → Jul 22, 2019, Forte di Civezzano (Tagliata superiore)
The sculpture of a dress without an inhabitant and the painting of a woman without clothes begin to dance. The notes are those of a Basque Fandango, a traditional dance in which two people, facing one another, mirror each other's steps without ever touching. In the Fandango - word that is pronounced in the same way all over the world - the ideal circle composed by the first two dancers gradually expands by the presence of other dancers joining them.
The presences that fill the exhibition at the Forte di Civezzano are the ones linked to the female world, without them being rigidly trapped by it; to bring them alive are artists Enrica Borghi and Margherita Paoletti - protagonists of a silent dialogue that leads them to confront themselves, and their femininity.
Enrica Borghi, born in Piedmont in 1966, began to make art with waste in the 1990s, focusing on elements that directly referred to the aesthetics area: the dress, the tinsel, the hair, the manicure;
through regaining and remaking of debris materials, the artist presents a performative act that focuses on subjects such as ecology and the environment. Another constant is given by the references to figures that are placed halfway between the human and the divine, evoking traditional iconography at an initial consideration, but then reinterpreting this vision through the filter of the image of contemporary women. Therefore the "Ofelia" by Enrica Borghi is a dress made of plastic
bottles, which seems to float in the surrounding space with the lightness of a pre-Raphaelite painting, but the body is missing - and remains only as an echo of a title of the Shakespearean's Opera heroine. In the same way, the sculptures of "Venus" recall the goddess of beauty, but their appearance is hidden by an armor of false, painted nails that completely covers them.
It seems that these women are missing something to be complete, something that can be desperately sought after in the exterior, but that turns out to be futile - like the rag (wink to the famous sculpture by Pistoletto?) composed as a turban on one of their heads. Finally, the luminous element: if the ideals connected to aesthetics are blinding and misleading, Enrica Borghi creates her "Luci d´artista",shedding light on what really matters, respect for oneself and for nature.
On the other hand works by Margherita Paoletti, born in 1990 in Fabriano, focus entirely on interiority, like the x-ray, the "essential invisible to the eye" that only the artist manages to find in
people, starting from dreams. In her series "Ombre di sogno", the faces of the subjects are in fact hidden and meant to be unrecognizable, like the projection of images processed by the mind during
the night, identified by Margherita Paoletti with flowers, different for each and rich in intrinsic symbology. The project is further developed with the video-animation "Visage", in which a spot of colour casted on a white page evolves and turns into a woman's face covered with colorful flowers. In ceramic sculptures the elusive thought extends from the mind to become a whole body, taking possession of the organs and preluding to a biographical narration that seems to be written in the DNA of the small ideal women represented by the artist. Following this inspiration, Margherita Paoletti then turns to "her" women, real people who are part of everyday life, or who are a source of inspiration for her, portraying them through their stories, without describing their outer appearance.
It is once again the nature that inhabits their bodies and outlines their unique features as well as common elements. The artist invites her subjects - to whom the corresponding portrait will never be revealed - to recognize oneself as one or another woman, or to identify all of themselves as a single "great mother" figure.
"Fandango" is dedicated to the ageless female figures of Enrica Borghi and Margherita Paoletti, free from uptight stereotypes, so that the complementary circle composed of both exteriority and interiority could open to welcome infinite people, making them aware of all the emotional charge linked to the generative process, and to the natural rhythm of all things.
Camilla Nacci
Events, Posted on 19/09/2019
by Cellar Contemporary
In occasione del finissage della mostra "Fandango", domenica 22 settembre alle 15:00 si terrà un laboratorio di stampa a cura di Margherita Paoletti
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