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27/5/2010

Jacopo Ceccarelli

OIOIOI International Art Gallery, St. Petersburg

curated by Andrea Sartori

The dreamlike character of Jacopo Ceccarelli’s visual art is brought, in this new exhibition, to a high level of expression, for what concerns both the subjects and the technique. The canvas are here of plastic material, and on them the artist uses felt-tip pens diluted with different solvents, as acetone and ethyl alcohol.
This technique, appositively thought by Ceccarelli for his purposes, cannot be totally controlled and mastered in all its effects, and this is why the artist’s works give us the sense of an endless movement, which cannot be fully contained in the borders of the canvas. Portraits of famous people are remixed with everyday objects, animals, common people, in order to represent the result of a dynamic conception of art, in which metamorphosis is not an end of the artistic gesture, but its principle, its ground and meaning.

Drawing’s strokes and colors’ weaves interlace themselves, generating impossible figures which are the outcome of a conjunction of reality and imagination. With these new works signed by Ceccarelli, we are brought very close to the essence and source of the artistic creativity, where there is no hierarchy between intuitions and images, thoughts, perceptions and desires, concrete objects – that we can find everywhere in our life – and imaginative worlds.
The artist seems to tell us that art itself is a sort of encounter between impulses and drives that we normally separate from each other, and that only in the space of art can be put in dialogue.

OIOIOI International Art Gallery
Poltavskaya, 3 - St. Petersburg

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