N.23 La Veneratio nella Luna Ariostea

 

STEFANO PASQUINI

n. 23
La veneratio nella luna ariostea.

A romantic helegy of the eternally repeated ubiquitousness

 

Curated by Patrizia Silingardi e Francesca Pincelli

 

 

17 
January – 28 
February 2009

vernissage 
Saturday 17
January 2009 
- 7 PM 

 

 

 

 

Ludovico Ariosto 
in his "Orlando Furioso" narrates that when Orlando
lost his reason for love, Astolfo, the cavalier, flying on the Hippogriff,
lands on a marvellous moon, described as an open air junkyard where one can
find all the things that were lost on earth. As a kind of grand trash dump,
the moon seems like the perfect place for the objects with which Pasquini
makes his post-modern artistic manufacts. For a curious similitude, the vial
described by Ariosto is consistent with the Duchamp masterpiece 50
cc air de Paris (27.12.1919,
readymade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg
Collection), emblematic oeuvre
that helps us get closer with the selection of works in this
exhibition. From the never
ending artistic production of Stefano Pasquini, 
the possibility to contain the uncontainable, the
abstruse taste for those ambiguous objects, slightly surreal, where too much
sense and significance gets condensed upon, is the pretext for the
storytelling of his aesthetically and marginal nature - a side clearly
distinguishable to his long term kitsch and post-punk research of much of his
work.

So we have a series of dust catchers barely within
the realm of sculpture, together with little graphic remains that have been
assigned the status of relic, precious and unique. Permeated with the
Duchampian passion for reticence - intended not as silence, but as ambiguity
through silence - the selection of the works is interested in sentimental
implications such as preservation, testimony and affection. In this way the
mundane noise of the post modern residue is halted in an apparent
silence, in the will and occasion where it becomes possible to apply the
"religious" principle of veneratio. At last placed in the pedestal of
Art, elevated in the proper rank, these objects appear finally as silent,
without a story to shout, bowed with discretion at the benevolent
veneration of the spectator.

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