Pure material transferred to the canvas, gestures and movement are the components of very elegant paintings. The hand of the artist hand moulds the materials, at the same time letting himself be guided in the discovery of an unknown world where he only controls the events up to a certain point, beyond which the material is free to take any form, independently of his will. The material seems to escape his control, advancing on its own; the artist guides it, indicating its movement, but then it frees itself from his hand and will, and appears to move without any further orientation. From order to chaos and back, in an experimental journey shared by artist and material.

Arciprete combines the light touch of her drawing with textural elements, applied as in a collage on the canvas, or by excavating into and within the work, as if in an attempt to reveal, to the eye and the hand, the contrast between the difficulty of an interior research and the symbolic element on which it is inspired. As in all signic expressions, the immediate bond is first and foremost with the artist’s own interiority; the work then expands in the universalism of the message implied by the self-same sign. From the homogeneous character of the chromatic shades representing the homologation of Man in the universe of everyday life, in a discovery of interiorities rendered through an excavation of the superimposed layers of paper, symbol of a desire to penetrate in the interiority of everyone, and indeed an uncontrollable need to go beyond the surface, beyond appearance, to unveil everything concealed behind. A need for penetration and introspection in a world which prefers appearance to being.

The “sign”: this is the expressive element shared by the two artists, which is in both of them characterized by symbolic and intimist accents linked to individual memory as baggage of experiences and life, which resurfaces forcefully from the unconscious of each painter. Heritages from childhood, real or fantastic landscapes, memories aimed at a search for the I, which burrows its roots in an almost psychoanalytical key of interpretation.

In Borrelli the child facing the hardships of life, which seem complex and insurmountable, gigantic tangles in which to dive or drown, however always finds a solid escape rout in itself, a way to out through maturation and knowledge.

The figures of Baricchi, on the other hand, appear to be born from a pencil delicately grazing the canvas rather than from brushstrokes: a slight and evanescent graphic line which does not attack the canvas, but surfaces from it, like the light consciousness of half-sleep emerges from a dream. And this dream, which accompanies the artist in his pictorial research, resembles a vision that surfaces from the unconscious, a desire to identify oneself with the purity and innocence of those figures. It is the childhood dream to which everyone aspires. The toys, the dolls, the fairy tales are a personal yet universal heritage, a way to dream, a way to recapture a lost innocence.

“…..I work with writing, through language, taking possession of its creative process, which I make my own, but then I break them apart. I want to deconstruct, recreate the meaning of a language without limits. The ink is like a diffused echo of liquid words. The liquid of the words is the meaning of words that have already been pronounced, and others which remain hidden, stored in the mind. Thought that have not yet been expressed, but have acquired form, weight, essence……” (Stefano Ciannella)

The “tale” of the genesis of human thought is a strong, powerful element in Ciannella. It is a labor, also painful, a kind of battle between instinct and rationality, something which is, for that matter, true of all creative acts.

A kind of meeting between east and west; the lightness of the pictorial gesture and the sobriety, the rigor of the composition which evokes the painting traditions of the East, in an artist who pursues rationality and scientific rigor in artistic research.

The delicacy of the sign is interrupted by a decided brushstroke, made of full and intense color which immediately

brings to mind Sam Francis, a kind of musical counterpoint between the drawn sign and the purely pictorial one, which evokes other counterpoints and delicate equilibriums between mind and body, between ying and yang, dreams and wakefulness. A fusion between rationality and scientific rigor on the one side, and dreamy atmospheres and psychoanalytic introspection on the other.

A conceptual artist who attacks the space with her sculptures and installations, with the power of her works. Pastore enters a space which does not remain indifferent but that, like a wild animal, spots and attacks, leaving an indelible distinctive mark on those who approach it.

The opening of those roses of pure life, marked by a deep and dark black, leaves no room for uncertainty: it is life with all its charge of violence and gentleness. Life which is revealed in that fleeting moment, and which contains and absorbs everything within it.

Life which is freed from heads entangled in thoughts and desires: distinctive and powerful symbols of all the unexpressed desires of being.