SHEER PULSES

MARCO VIGNATI SHEER PULSES Galleria Lampo, Milan October 29 – November 17, 2024 Opening: Tuesday, October 29, 2024, from 6 PM Curatorial text by Domenico de Chirico Galleria LAMPO, Milan is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by Marco Vignati, titled Sheer Pulses, curated by Domenico de Chirico. Playing with space and time in a liminal dimension steeped in estrangement, uncertainty, and transformation that perpetually oscillates between Eros and Thanatos, metamorphosis and suspension, Marco Vignati, by exploring the vastness of the tangible - sensitive and imperfect - world, creates a unique atmosphere, profoundly painful yet ethereal, skillfully suspended and detached from reality. As in Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d’un poète), the exhibition Sheer Pulses, while following a somewhat linear narrative, unfolds through a series of viscerally dreamlike, delicate, and enigmatic scenes that compel us to confront fundamental concepts such as the fleeting nature of time and stillness, existence in the world, lingering, and metamorphosis. These are glimpses of existence symbolized by essential lines that, highlighting the elegance and strength of forms, carefully preserve suspended, voracious, and surreal pulses that deliberately defy gravitational logic. Through this kind of imagery, Vignati seems intent on underscoring the painful process that leads to creation - a deep wound far from healing, from which a slow and sweet blood flows, vivid and metallic. In his desire to represent the deeper dimensions of human experience, Marco Vignati has developed a distinctive visual language that manifests through exquisitely elegiac stylizations and a vehemently corporeal sense of mystery and magic. The result is a harmonious constellation of emulsions detached from the paper surface, thin and fragile layers upon which he deposits the pigment of the print, torn like flesh. Insubstantial vehicles of a visual prelude whose very transparency reveals their defining precariousness. These skins are a memory, a recollection, suspended pulses hanging from imperceptible threads. Allegorically speaking, they are not merely the skins of a human being; they are the wrapping of life, the world’s placenta. They are an intimate visual reflection, the polysemic mirror of reality - a mirror that, as Cocteau would say, is nothing but an allegorical passage to another dimension, standing as a portal, an alternative path of reflection, and a symbol of exploration not of the unconscious but of the rawest reality, rendered like a sculptural ritual, between reflection and distortion, illusion and artifice. Diaphanous organic materials, a cast of an imprint, a draped veil, a trace of something that has already come to pass. They are the sensation of what will never return, they are faint light, the warmth of an extinguished fire. Sheer Pulses is the transition between being, having been, and what will be - a sensitive journey depicted through a strongly symbolic aesthetic that allows Vignati to combine movement and paralysis with the precariousness and intensity of forms. Here, the delicate reflection on time becomes arduous and tangible, a pendulum of flesh, an eternal becoming that leaves luminous traces of alteration, stories of indelible states, Callimachean whispers. Galleria Lampo Scalo Farini, Via Valtellina 5 – 20129 Milano Free admission by reservation | [email protected]