Tessere l’invisibile
SABRINA CASADEI
OPENING Thursday november 25th 2021
until saturday january 29th 2021
Tessere l’invisibile
MARIA CHIARA VALACCHI
Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present “Tessere l’invisibile”, the second solo show by the artist Sabrina Casadei (Rome, 1985). A reflection about the genesis of the image, translated into a series of new pictorial works, which are connected through a thin and tangible thread aimed at emphasising a narrative web of symbolic and conceptual references.
As in fabric, where warp and weft stubbornly persist in their repetition and modular variations to reach a more ambitious unity, the exhibition, in a more universal manner, insists on reiterating some aesthetic modules, always present in the essence of things. These are inevitably always different, despite being reproducible. They are, for the artist, a clear metaphor of the numerous world diversities and its labyrinth-like unpredictable events, these latter being nevertheless indissoluble parts of a complex objective of Armonia.
Each picture develops in a kaleidoscopic twine of intense embroidered signs, always and inevitably corrupted by the natural randomness of matter which expands, just as magma, overwhelming the canvas. Chromatic detonations of abstract forms – at times open-air landscapes, at times macro-organisms, or again plant germinations – which Casadei creates and handles sapiently. Liquid-looking morphological crystallisations invite us to measure our world’s complexity and its ungraspable semiotic qualities.
An exhibition which, in addition to the pictorial layer, appears literally ‘sewn’ together thanks to the use of cloth and webs which Casadei overlays and visually sums up. Filters which, instead of pushing the observer away, paradoxically invite it to enter into the canvas more intimately. This way smaller figurative details, otherwise lost in fluctuating color patches, can be discovered and appreciated not only as purely abstract elements. A mysterious equilibrium governs the works, laying suspended between hyperrealism and the absence of figurative elements, for which the indeterminacy of a viewpoint becomes the real and unavoidable constant.