Roma Arte in Nuvola
Overview
MATTIA SINIGAGLIA
Luce cruda, 2023
For this third edition of Roma Arte in Nuvola, Andrea Festa presents a bipersonal exhibition by Mattia Sinigaglia (Castiglione delle Stiviere, 1989) and Silvia Paci (Prato, 1990). The booth invokes the artists' imagery, reflection on the human using the filter of the fairy tale, the fantastic and the supernatural to approach the real.
Mattia Sinigaglia
"I see my work as a manifestation of a landscape in which what emerges is a psychological component; my images do not manifest as everyday images, but as mental constructions."
His work stems from an interest in art history and the symbolism underlying magic, esoteric practices, and also the fascination with scientific knowledge. His practice is characterized by the alternation between figure and geometric detail. The works are characterized by the use of wood, ceramics and paint. Delving into these materials and their relationship is a fundamental part of his research. What emerges later is a tension/relationship between form and matter between abstract and figurative. In some cases we find more or less veiled references to scientific or technological issues. From here the macro-theme emerges; duality and what is relationship, or tension, in the human being. The declinations of this macro-theme can vary from the relationship between: figuration/abstraction, form/matter, human being/natural world/animal, human being/technology.
Silvia Paci
"I try to create images that are not obvious but I want them to leave the viewer wondering what is happening on the canvas. I love to create ambiguous images in which everyone can create their own story."
In Silvia Paci's artistic research, the body (figure) plays the most important role; it is the tool that allows her to be in contact with the world. These ephemeral figures express the passage of the human being in a chaotic world. Within her works different situations visually intersect. Modern chaos is represented by overlapping layers of paint, colors that evoke fear contrasted with others that invoke hope, elements of destruction alternate with pleasant elements.This is the reality he sees, a constant alternation between negative and positive forces. The artist's work is based on associative, free, dreamlike, unconscious research of themes related to the human. Painting is developed through a visual narrative that is nourished by drawing. Thus the images have to do with the facts of life but are intertwined and resolved with the facts of imagination, magic and fantasy. The reflection on the human uses the filter of the fairy tale, the fantastic and the supernatural to approach the real. Silvia tries to use herself as a place of collective memory, feeding on legends, things seen or heard, sayings; the feelings are identified with the represented subjects who are equally victims and executioners. Through this process she tries to express through painting ambiguous states, uncertainties, mysteries and doubts, desisting from offering explanations.
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