ONISHI GALLERY

ARTISTS: Nicola Bor­to­lussi, Pino Chi­menti, Miriam De Berardis, Isa Di Bat­tista Gorini, Bar­bro Eriks­son, Franca Fac­cin, Clau­dio Mar­tini, Shinichi Naka­hata, Clara Scaram­pella Lom­bardi, Bruno Petronzi, Gianni Testa

Onishi Gallery is proud to present “Extra-ordinary life” a group exhi­bi­tion curated by Ste­fa­nia Car­rozzini, fea­tured by eleven artists mostly from Italy. The exhi­bi­tion is com­posed of 26 art­works: pho­tographs, paint­ings, instal­la­tions, sculp­tures, collages.

The artists devel­oped the idea of extra-ordinary life look­ing into the con­flicts of con­tem­po­rary cul­ture and into their own per­sonal experiences.

In this exhi­bi­tion we can find dif­fer­ent expres­sive lan­guages, assem­blages, works involv­ing the trans­for­ma­tion of non-art objects and mate­ri­als into sculp­tures, urban land­scapes and imag­i­nary worlds in which any­thing can hap­pen, fan­tas­tic atmos­pheres, new dimen­sions of real­ity and dif­fer­ent ways of see­ing the world which go beyond the vis­i­ble: a search for the poetic mean­ing of nature and the strength of emo­tions through color and light. All of the artists focused on rep­re­sent­ing time and space where daily life events meet the mys­ter­ies and secrets of exis­tence, the dialec­tic of life.

There is no doubt that we live a chaotic yet at the same time extra-ordinary life. The pre­fix “extra” sep­a­rated by the hyphen stands for every­thing which goes beyond the ordi­nary, beyond the appar­ent banal­ity of our exis­tence until it reaches those bound­less ter­ri­to­ries which touch the total­ity of man and of the uni­verse. It is a thin line which divides the two dimen­sions, the two poles flow into each other. In every­day life, each indi­vid­ual is immersed in daily activ­i­ties and habits. The role of the artist is to bring out the extra-ordinary, to upset this “every­day­ness” through cre­ative think­ing which pro­duces ener­getic sparks able to shake up our com­mon sense and real­ity. It is the capac­ity to see beyond the depths of our exis­tence, to be amazed by the mys­tery of this world. It is the cathar­tic and puri­fy­ing pur­pose of artis­tic imag­i­na­tion. It is the desire to con­tinue to pro­voke in the spec­ta­tor, nowa­days so used to see­ing too much and see­ing badly, exis­ten­tial energy in its essence, a new joie de vivre.

Art inter­venes to fill the gap­ing hole of human ennuie, of empti­ness of the spirit. To be able to see in the fleet­ing moment of our daily life new, extra-ordinary hori­zons of the senses means to go beyond the vis­i­ble, to look for that truth hid­ing in all the ephemera of our exis­tence. Because the invis­i­ble har­mony is supe­rior to the vis­i­ble, and the extra-ordinariness of life is not the excep­tion, but the real poten­tial which each of us har­bors within.

By Ste­fa­nia Carrozzini

The cat­a­logue is avail­able at the gallery.

Also of Interest

• 2011 Apr:Among the Serious and Playful Things
• 2011 Nov:Dreamscapes | Stefania Carrozzini
• 2010 Nov:Reality, what Reality?
• 2009 Jun:Hideto Imai: Daily Life
• 2012 May:you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star