Operativa Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present Post Islanda (Catabasi con Giardino Giallo), Alessandro Vizzini’s (Cagliari, 1985) first personal project for the gallery space.

After his participation in the collective project “The Weight of My Light”, with which the gallery has inaugurated its exhibitory activity, the artist presents his last cycle of works created after his long stay in Iceland at NES Artist Residency.

The exhibition deals with a constant thought in the artist’s research, concerning the contrast between the natural physical space, highly material, and the mental space, spiritual and introspective. Great sculptures in wood and Styrofoam are presented as totemic mental architectures through which matter reveals its mystical ability to transform the artist’s inner process in tangible manifestation. The reference to the descent into the Underworld, the katabasis, is useful to precisely define this introspective movement characterising the exhibition’s project. The dark descent into themselves amplifies perceptual skills, thus creating the conditions for a true asceticism inside the material itself and its sculptural presence: colours and shapes create visual movement and elevations, stairs and pyramids with no clear form symbolize a philosophy both ancient and modern, as found in the Descent into Hades and Resurrection of Elemír Turf, philosopher, writer, scholar and connoisseur of mystical esoteric doctrines.

Alessandro Vizzini (Cagliari, 1985) lives and works in Rome. He graduated in 2010 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome after a year of experience at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. In 2013 he was invited to the Macro Museum in Testaccio for the joint “Nettle - Organic Theme in Contemporary Art”. In the same year he showed at the Temple University in Rome for the exhibition “Unisono”. In 2011 he was invited to the exhibition “Archiviazioni, esercizi di indagine e discussione sul Sud contemporaneo. Le cose preziose.” (“Archiving, investigation and discussion exercises on contemporary South Italy. The precious things.”), by Luigi Presicce and Giusy Checola. Lecce.

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