Exhibition

De aeterno reditu

6 Sep 2014 – 18 Oct 2014

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Vernissage: Saturday 6 September 2014 7-9 pm

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Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art

Berlin, Germany

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  • U1 Uhlandstrasse, U9 Spichernstraße
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First solo exhibition in Germany of Italian artist Giuseppe Gonella

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The exhibition De aeterno reditu brings together a series of paintings that the Italian artist Giuseppe Gonella painted especially for his solo show at Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art in Berlin. The focus of this series of paintings is the question of memory. The beholder is invited to enter a world in which paintings depict fragments of memories and attest to the unstoppable flow of time. They are moments that were captured and found again years later; they make us surprised at their discovery as soon as we remember that they ever took place. We enter a world where space is extended and simultaneously condensed, and where the horizons of reality are not easily determined. For De aeterno reditu, the artist also created a large mural in the gallery's first room, depicting the ruins of a basilica in Cyprus. Whereas the painter has changed his depiction, the ruins nonetheless communicate an almost perfect likeness. Even though they survived the passage of time and centuries of erosion, in the end they remain ruins that point to a world that existed in the past and yet is not all that different from our own. The players and protagonists are always different, but our universe remains the same. The mural represents an entrance to the cosmos of this exhibition and at the same time a kind of manual for the visitors, an element that sums up the visual world of the show in a programmatic way — a grandiose portal that leads us into a world of dreams, inviting us to lose ourselves in this territory that we seek to traverse and appropriate for ourselves. We are welcomed into a world where temporality is something ambiguous, where the works represent fragments of a truth, a reality containing elements of the artist's memory, a poetic memorandum, a narrative in pictures that shows a life that was and, perhaps, will be again, though differently. Figures, borders, signs, and colors emerge from the canvases like fragments that seem to have been taken from the continuous flow of memory and thrown into an utopian and dream-like dimension. Giuseppe Gonella has created a space that transcends the limits of reality in order to find new narrative forms. Everything is uncertain, open-ended. In these paintings full of energetic brush strokes, delicately painted figures emerge. They seem to remain in a paradoxically stable equilibrium in which we lose and then find ourselves. Giuseppe Gonella, born in 1984 in Motta di Livenza, studied at the Academy of Art in Venice. His most recent solo show was entitled Involved and took place at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, last fall. An extensive catalogue with essays by Daniele Capra, Pietro C. Marani and Carlo Sala was published for this exhibition. We have introduced Giuseppe Gonella's work for the first time in Berlin in our group shows Take A Walk on the Wild Side (2013/2014) and ABRACADABRA (2014).

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