21 September > 23 November 2024
GENESIS
Curated by Simone Ceschin
In collaboration with NP-ArtLab
Opening 21/09/2024 h 18:00
22/09 > 23/11/2024
Universo Factory
Via Savassa Bassa 4, Vittorio Veneto
The art exhibition Genesis, hosted within the framework of Universo Factory in collaboration with NP-ArtLab, represents a fascinating convergence between the works of Leonardo Dalla Torre and Giacomo Facca. At the center of this artistic dialogue stands the concept of genesis intended not only as the origin of life, but as a metaphor for artistic creation itself, embodied in their respective visual and conceptual research.
The artist Leonardo Dalla Torre explores the idea of the First Body through an investigation that starts from the biblical image of creation to arrive at a broader reflection on painting as the genesis of the body. In his works, the pictorial matter becomes flesh, and the flesh is transformed into a pictorial surface, in a continuous game of references between physicality and representation. The artist uses material concretions, alterations and solvents that break the formal linearity, alluding to the intrinsic complexity of the creative act. The surfaces that emerge from his paintings are symptoms of a tumultuous process, where the body takes shape through stratifications of mud and earth, symbols of birth and sacredness that coexist in tension with imperfection and deformity. The inspiration from the paintings of Hans Memling, with their manneristic idealization and almost structureless softness, helps to create images that are still in progress, unfinished and in conflict with themselves, reflections of a pictorial genesis that confronts the fragility of the flesh.
Giacomo Facca, whose research delves into the depths of the body, tries to give shape to that interior dimension that is often inaccessible or hidden, enters into dialogue with this reflection. His work is inspired by the anatomical sculpture of the Medici Venus by Clemente Susini, a symbol of a body that opens up to a deeper revelation of being. In Facca, interiority manifests itself through organic and natural elements such as mushrooms, roots and wood, which become visceral metaphors of the tension between body and nature. His sculptures, which evoke the shape of the intestines, express the intimacy of the body in a state of continuous metamorphosis, where the inside and the outside interpenetrate in a dialectic between creation and decay. Here, the body is an entity in constant transformation, which consumes itself in its process of decay, but which, at the same time, aspires to a symbolic fusion with the natural life cycle. Facca's works, such as Nidi and Placenta, allude to a symbiotic relationship between the human being and mother earth, with images that oscillate between memento mori and rebirth, between sacrifice and regeneration.The exhibition presents itself as a journey through the dynamics of creation, where flesh, painting and nature intertwine in a process of birth and continuous transformation.
The artists offer two complementary visions of the body, one that comes to life in the struggle between matter and form, and the other that reveals itself in its deepest recesses, in an uninterrupted dialogue between interiority and exteriority, creation and ruin, unity and fragmentation.
Simone Ceschin