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27/5/2011

Alessandro Cannistra'

91mQ art project space, Berlin

A cura di Fabio Campagna

testi di :
Fabio Campagna
Manuela Pacella
Barbara Dicorato

"Bases di Alessandro Cannistrà è un progetto site specific di pittura, videoinstallazione e fotografia che celebra la duplice risonanza dell’umano nella natura e viceversa del dato naturale nell’umano. Nasce un organismo semantico vivo, duale, frutto di un iniziale giustapposizione, che si risolve nella fluidità dinamica dei molteplici morfismi linguistici che lo compongono.
I lavori pittorici entrano in quelli fotografici per aprire, poi, nuove codificazioni figurative in quelli videoinstallativi.

Un processo metamorfico, insieme lirico e metafisico, che svela il procedere del dato fenomenologico della vita naturale dentro l’immaginario del corpo. Per descrivere un percorso comune di significato. Una traccia che muove dalla natura elementare del reale.

La struttura, le basi, - l’umano e il naturale – sono individuate, così, per descrivere una soggettività unica e condivisa. “Le nozze chimiche” degli alchimisti. Ovverosia le basi che, nel linguaggio scientifico, allacciano un legame fisico con la controparte complementare, gli acidi, attraverso uno scambio di particelle. Unità indivise ma composite.

Bases dunque come fondamenta di un potente immaginario mitopoietico costruito dentro il dialogo ininterrotto della natura nell’uomo."
Fabio Campagna

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Curated by Fabio Campagna

“To construct an image for juxtaposition and pairing is thinking in mythological terms. The mythological idea, instead of distinguishing in opposites what is juxtaposed, unite them as a pair. Infact, the opposites present themselves in very few descriptive types: contradictions, contrasts, complements, formal and logical negations. The pairings, instead, as in brothers, or enemies, or lovers are displayed in an infinite variety of styles (…).
Anima creates attachments and connections. It makes love possible.” J. Hillman
 
Bases by Alessandro Cannistrà is a site specific project composed of paintings, video installation, and photography which celebrates the dualistic resonance of human within nature and conversely of the given nature of humanity. Giving birth to an alive and dual semantic organism. Source of an initial juxtaposition, which is resolved in the fluidity of multiple linguistic morphisms.

The painting works enter into those of photography, opening then, new figurative codifications within the video installations. A metamorphic process, both lyrical and metaphysical. Revealing the given phenomenological progress of natural life within the imaginary of the body, in order to describe a path of common significance and tracing a line from the elementary nature of reality.
 
The structure. The basis, - the human and nature- are individuated to describe a unique and shared subjectivity. The “chemical marriage” of alchemists. The base which, scientifically speaking, secures a physical connection to a complementary counterpart, acids, through an interchange of particles. Undivided yet composite, units.

Bases as foundations of a potent mythopoetic imaginary constructed inside an uninterrupted dialogue of the nature within man.

This very genesis, specifically, is child of an expressive polysemy; possessed by the poetic that Cannistrà adopts to construct the figuration of his canvases. It is this stratification, slow, methodical, unpredictable, made of layers of smoke, which opens an access. From here emerges a grouping of dense signs. Darkness. Bucolic landscapes. Whose physicality remains inaccessible. Filled as if with other allusions. And it is exactly this surreal, liquefied dimension that presents itself as the profoundest source of Bases.

It is the underlying semantic richness of the quality of execution, which drives the intense abstraction of the linguistic process of Bases. Combining a representation of the given reality with further suggestions. And starting an anthropomorphic process of thickening and enrichment of the symbolic apparatus of departure.
 
The bleak stretched woods - the dark and repetitive shadows multiplied, within the canvases, into compact and homogeneous structures, - become petrified organic formations in the photographic works.
Where x-rays of bodies open themselves to unfold a potent narration of what is natural within the human. Here flows a derive of forms. A morphic resonance - to use an expression important to the biologist Rupert Sheldrake - of sharing and of approach, a communion of imaginary that finds its own conclusion within the four video installations shown on monitors. Where the juxtaposition of the painted works and of the x-rays are counterpointed by four small, concrete musical compositions, with which Cannistrà, manipulating the different sound materials, articulates further his own personal poetic in an initiation that is both inter-symbolic and metamorphic.

“…An audio that is a noise, as in the first example, where the torso expands and contracts with breath, the second where the cranium of a child, with its internal wrinkles, pulsates in articulation to the sound of a TC compound computed tomography, in the third the same category of noise only amplified with an image that slowly reveals – the interior of a torso with an undergrowth of butterflies- to be something else, in the fourth where a nature grows inside of a skull or better, dreams of nature, in so much as a noise clearly defines an image, being that it is the amplified sound produced in our brain when dreaming in an REM state.” A.C.

It is in this way that the physical space of 91 mQ reconfigures itself through Bases, in a text of an obscure yet eternal and dense narration. In which the communion of the two identities, that of nature and man, is resolved in an inseparable subjectivity.
 
A living unity, as locus of truth and hope.
Critical text: Fabio Campagna

28 May 2011 | opening h 19:00

91mQ art project space
Landsberger Alle 54 - Berlin
30 / 3 June by appointment: fabiocampagna@yahoo.it

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