Regione piatta solo cornacchie che mi gridano intorno (p40), 2008, collage, mixed media, 170 x 150 cm
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Vicarious
Alessandro Roma
Opening Friday, January 16, 2009, 6pm
17.01. - 28.02.2009
Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6 pm |
We are pleased to be able to present the second solo exhibition of the Italian artist Alessandro Roma.
Alessandro Roma’s new group of works is based on a story that lies many years in the past. It is the story of
a man who, tired of his everyday life, embarks on a journey in the hope that unfamiliar places will offer him
a new identity and could create a link between his inner nature and the outer world – as far as this is still
possible. He didn’t have a plan, but followed his instincts, and this allowed him to see and describe incredible
places.
The title of the exhibition “Vicarious” refers to the stand-in function of the artist, who slips into the role of the
traveller. Roma creates the landscapes based on the literary source, but filtered through his imagination.
Drawing on his experiences, he embarks on an imaginary journey to find out what he might have seen. As
a result, his collages and sculptures are often fragmentary or appear out of focus. Dream worlds emerge
whose motifs seem to float.
Alessandro Roma’s landscapes aren’t attempts at documentation. They are closer to the imagination than
to reality. This distance to reality is further heightened by the intense colour. Forms seem to become fluid
and increasingly independent of the constraints of the rectangular format. In the most recent works, they
even leave the surface and proliferate in three-dimensional space.
Roma’s works are evocations of inner landscapes. They attempt to come to terms with the strange or
foreign.
All titles of the works are taken from the book “Of Walking in Ice” by Werner Herzog. Besides the large-scale
collages and paintings, the exhibition also includes sculptures.
Alessandro Roma: *1977 in Milan, lives and works in Milan
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