10 & ZERO UNO The ineffable borderline between painting and sculpture, the theme of drapery declined in a contemporary key and the vitality of matter are some of the knots around which the variegated corpus of works that make up Indagine di una piega unfolds. Eva Chiara Trevisan explores the quality of the surface and the possibilities of the fold, modelling a pictorial substance that preserves the sign of completed gestures and activates a haptic perception. The artist lives and works in Venice - the home of tonal painting, where the superimposition of colours and attention to luministic effects produce a plastic illusion - so her orientation towards colour as a means of expression is part of a tradition that characterises the lagoon city in its predilection for an element that is emotionally experienced by the viewer and charged with cultural meanings. Trevisan’s approach to the chromatic datum is instinctive, he maintains a dialogue with it until he reaches a moment of suspension, and he does this by working on the ground, through a physical relationship with the acrylic substance; in the series Lo que toco (2024) he simulates drapery, an element that dresses the body but is affected by the atmosphere, whose curves generate light and shadow, exhibiting its depth. Colour manifests itself here in its corporeal dimension, the painting emancipates itself from the support and acquires the three-dimensionality, weight and idea of movement typical of reality, giving rise to embodied images where even the reverse can manifest itself. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze, recognising in the Baroque style a textile form that tends to free itself from subordination to a finite body, asserted that ‘perhaps painting needs to break out of the picture and become a sculpture’. In this sense, the artist intends to probe the plastic properties of pictorial matter by creating a hybrid form that mocks the canvas, and not only can do without this support but also manages to imitate its textile qualities.
The exhibition opens to the public on 25 January from 6.30 pm and is narrated by the words of Alessandra Maccari.
INDAGINE DI UNA PIEGA
curated by Chiara Boscolo
critical essay by Alessandra Maccari
From 28th of January to 1st of March, 2025
Opening saturday, 25 January, 2025, 6.30-9 PM
10 & zero uno, Castello 1830, via Garibaldi, Venice
