Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present the solo show by Alice Faloretti (Brescia, 1992) Suspension of Disbelief, which marks the beginning of the artist's collaboration with the gallery. The project gathers a selection of recent works, both on canvas and paper, which demonstrate the complexity of her research on landscape, the subjects of wild environment and the conflictual relation between natural elements and anthropic presence. The exhibition is accompanied by a text of Daniele Capra.

Alice Faloretti’s practice is interiorly crossed by realistic cues and imaginary issues, outcome of her pure imagination. In her works, figuration is functional to an intimate narrative development, with plenty of enigmatic and alienating visual elements. The title of the exhibition refers to the famous expression by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, theorizing the necessity to compose stories with a “semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith”. In a similar way, Faloretti’s works present the viewer a condition of perceptive ambiguity, both for unrealistic, bold, compositions and daring chromatic solutions, pushed to the limit of verisimilitude. Her works are characterized by a surreal atmosphere where colors and shapes of natural events are the result of an extension of the artist’s subconscious, an hyperbolic transfiguration that goes beyond what could be expected. In these circumstances perceptive uncertainty and sense of wonder let the viewer psychically float elsewhere, in a both ordinary and extraordinary world.

In Faloretti’s painting, landscape seems to crumple, stir and dissolve, then is given a new shape, with intense, sapid and stinging colors. The artist reconfigures and reimagines parts of world, imbued with a dreamlike vision that can’t be avoided. Observers can just stop and stare silently, as the man who is bewitched by the sparkling eyes of the hoary seadog in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. On canvases as well, there are some imaginary truths that surprisingly escape the truths of the world.

Alice Faloretti's research (Brescia, 1992) is focused on painting and drawing.

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, after a period of study at the AVU Fine Arts Academy in Prague. Among the personal shows Transizioni, Made in Art, Festival 360, Parma; Ricognizioni in Contemporanea, In profondità, galleria 1.1 Zenonecontemporanea, Reggio Emilia. Among the group shows in 2019 Selvatico [14], Cotignola (RA); Tutti non ci sono, Traffic Gallery, Bergamo; Group Show, Crag Gallery, Turin; 102ma Collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; La risposta dell’amore/ Die antwort die liebe, Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, Palermo; in 2018 Open Studio Progetto Borca, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Borca di Cadore (Bl); Premio Nocivelli, Chiesa della Disciplina, Brescia; Opera Prima, Trieste Contemporanea e ITIS-ARCA, Trieste / spazio Dumbo Docks, Venezia Marghera; Combat Prize, Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno; Premio Arteam Cup, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì; in 2017 AVU Exhibition, Studio di Pittura I, Praga (CZ); in 2016 Fuori Uso 2016. Avviso di Garanzia, Ex Tribunale, Piazza Alessandrini, Pescara; in 2015 Biennale internazionale dell’incisione, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento, Monsummano Terme (Pt). She lives and works in Venice.