ARCHEOLOGIE

Archeologie: note sulla collezione | Archeologie: notes on the collection

whom the fragment - fundamental because it reveals a trace of the

past – is the starting-point for an attempt to reconstruct history. For

Guerzoni, the fragment is the endpoint of his work, the goal for which

he strives in his investigation of the surface, as he digs deep down,

leafing through the deposits of time and memory. Like the large pages

of a book traced with fragile sketches, embryonic forms whose meaning

has been lost in time, leaving only fleeting traces, uncertain, ambiguous,

mysterious morphologies.

It marks the start of a journey into the mind of the artist-archaeologist,

an adventurous journey into the inextricable labyrinth of the mind, to

unearth what is hidden, shuffling the cards in a perennial contamination

of images, memory, signs and traces, in search of a meaning, which no

sooner appears than it is lost, merging into time and once again becoming

a dream, an imaginary journey into fantasy and wonder.

And this is the case in the tryptic created for CEDIT, which placed a

new challenge before the artist: to transfer “his” image, the remains and

fragments of a forgotten wall onto a new material for him – stunning,

large-sized ceramic slabs – and a real wall, without this tautology

betraying the painting’s deep meaning, its fertile magic of lines and

colours, from which the image is born.

And the artist is fully aware of this. Guerzoni describes his art as

a “gamble”: a gamble that is a critical test, an act of daring, dangerous

and risky.

This is the challenge he sets himself. It is a challenge he easily

overcomes, expressing himself on these large walls with a rediscovered

pleasure in painting, no longer restrained and apparently absorbed by

the dense, uneven coloured surface but set free and almost luxuriously

accentuated.

In his large, demanding works for CEDIT, Guerzoni achieves a new,

consummate mode of painting, in which the architecture of the surfaces

provides a poetic meeting-point between the two founding components

of his style, the complex, well thought-out composition and the lyricism

of colour.

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