aLESSANDRO ROMA

ASSOLO #6 PER EVADERE DA SE STESSI è NECESSARIO FARSI INVADERE

IN cOLLABORATION with CAR GALLERY BOLOGNA

francesca antonini arte contemporanea, rome

from 22 january 2025

Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present Assolo #6. Per evadere da se stessi è necessario farsi invadere, featuring Alessandro Roma (Milan, 1977), in collaboration with CAR Gallery Bologna.  

For Assolo #6, Alessandro Roma will intervene in the gallery with a site-specific intervention, revealing his aptitude for playing with space. Two large black sheets, on which a luxuriant vegetation has been painted with the particular use of bleach, give new shapes to the main corridor of the gallery, partially redesigning its spaces. The painted images are inspired by the artist's recent visit to the Roman National Museum, in particular the frescoes of Villa Livia. Moving on to the central room, large canvases attached to thin metal tubes move around the room, enlivening the walls as they dialogue with the ceramic works.

The artist's research is characterised by a predominant pictorial approach. A painting with bright colours and agile shapes, creates dreamlike vegetal settings, constructed with a rapid and synthetic stroke. The ceramics, in the form of bas-relief or sculpture, return fragments of nature that are skilfully recomposed or de-constructed, in a perfect balance between fantasy and real experience. Highly evocative tales, bringing to mind exotic landscapes, suggestive symbolism and narratives of faraway places and times are predominant.

With Assolo, the gallery periodically presents a project dedicated to a guest artist who can freely intervene with an accurate selection of new works. The first four appointments featured the work of Shafei Xia (ShaoXing, 1989) with P420, Bologna; Andrea Barzaghi (Monza, 1988) with Lunetta 11, Mombarcaro (CN); Cristiano Tassinari (Forlì, 1980) with Ncontemporary, Milan-Venice; Andrea Fontanari (Trento, 1996) with Boccanera Gallery, Trento-Milan and  Marco Eusepi (Anzio, 1991) with Secci Gallery, Milan-Pietrasanta.