We are delighted to recommend to our audience the Italian contemporary artist Gianluca Cingolani’s solo exhibition “Fragmenta”, the Opening Ceremony will be held on November 16th at Today Art Museum.
Gianluca Cingolani has been working for years on large registers, including music, digital compositing and passion for calligraphy.
Gianluca Cingolani’s has been – and is – a solo exploration that has led him to cross artistic forms, to combine them, to confuse them and bring them new life.
The images of his photographic works emerge from and leave the two-dimensional perspective, taking on the appearance of objects that decidedly place themselves in space with their corporeality.
The narration in his video creations is built on textures of fabric, organza, tarlatan, cotton, nets, mixed with other textures, plaster, rice paper, evoking the arts of tailoring, carpentry, spinning, which weave and construct the plots of the narratives world offers us.
Contemplating becomes listening and action, synchronicity. Contemplate, therefore, to see oneself and at the same time to vanish; white and black together and divided.
Thus for abstract visions, made of a refined and inexhaustible range of shades of black, Cingolani offers the viewer opportunities for contemplation to enter the fabric of time.
Large gauze canvases are the vibrant and subtle texture on which light plays on deception, thickening shadows or burning details. It is what the artist calls memory and on this memory he runs his hand: deformations, inversions, reticulations, overlays, solarizations.
The brush slips: words or ideograms are composed and decomposed lightly giving body to dreamlike visions as fragments of magical sentences.
The signs fade, the fabric becomes thicker and wrinkled, underneath unknown shapes, celestial bodies, distant planets that measure themselves with mystery, with elsewhere.
Opale scent bodies that become black holes against a blinding white background, almost a spatial concept.
Like Fontana’s cuts, in fact, they suggest a threshold to cross, a bound-ary to be overcome, to finally lose oneself in an boundless without signs, where even memory, fragmentary gauze, unstable and very fragile woven by life, will not serve.
The exhibition Fragmenta is a journey in Time, are flection on the concepts of Narration. Fragments, the origin cells, projectus in the world of eternal Time. Achieving and ending the action no longer exists. Fragmenta projects us in the dimension of pure events, which is that ofinfinite time. An action has always already happened and is always about to happen.
ARTIST
Gianluca Cingolani | GLC
Gianluca Cingolani creates works of art in a multidisciplinary perspective his work is the result of the combination of knowledge of different nature layered in time on a path of research that saw him first as a craftsman then as a composer and musician later as director photographer and eventually as an experimenter of digital techniques
with which he has realized works of video-art and installations
in 2012 he is amongst the selected artists by Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and of Tourism(MIBACT) to celebrate the Italian Day of Contemporary Art.
CURATOR
Marina Timoteo
Marina Timoteo is a full Professor at the University of Bologna where she has been member of the Board of Administrators from 2012 to 2018.
Since 2005 she has been working in the team responsible of the academic and cultural relations withChina at the University of Bologna and since 2009 she is Director of theConfucius Institute at the University of Bologna, organizing academics eventsand exhibitions. From 2004 to 2006 she has been member of the National Committee for the Celebration of 750° anniversary of the Birth of Marco Polo, established by the Italian Ministry of Culture and Cultural Heritage. From 2006 to 2010 she has been member of the Italian-Chinese Intergovernmental Committee established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 2014 to 2016 she has been member of the Committee for scientific and technologic cooperation with China established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Since 2017 she is Member of the Banking Foundation Carisbo, supervising the Museum system “Genus Bononiae”.
WORKS
▲ FR16.19.1 2VOLI 碎片16.19.1 两次飞行
宣纸上的蒙太奇照片，80X80 cm，2018
▲ FR16.9 碎片16.9
视频_VIDEO 0:24 (LOOP_循环) HD，1920X1080，2018
▲ FR12.1 UP TO FR12.9 碎片 12.1 至碎片 12.9
放置在 9 个设备上，视频_VIDEO 0:45 (LOOP_循环) HD，1920X1080 2018
▲ FR16.15 2VELE 碎片16.15 两只帆
宣纸上的蒙太奇照片，80X80 cm，2017
▲ FR12.10 碎片12.10
视频_VIDEO 1:30 (LOOP_循环) HD，1920X1080，2017
Fragmenta – Gianluca Cingolani
2019.11.17 – 2019.12.6
Opening Ceremony: 2019.11.16 15:00
Location: Building No.3 of Today Art Museum
Curator: Marina Timoteo
Organizer: Today Art Museum
Sponsored by: Genelec、Istituto Italiano di Cultura Pechino、GenusBononiae
