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RITA URSO is delighted to inaugurate the exhibition Opere by Emanuele Becheri (Prato, 1973) and Carlo Guaita (Palermo, 1954). Opere is a reflection and an in-depth study of the poetics developed and shared by the two artists over more than a decade of acquaintance. On the occasion of the show, they dialogue with each other, revealing differences and similarities through a selection of more or less recent works. Carrying on the comparison already begun in 2011 with the project Genealogia at the Galleria FuoriCampo in Siena, which saw the participation of artists belonging to different generations in a dialogue through their works, the exhibition at the gallery in Milan intends to underline the connection between the two artists by giving voice and centrality to the works themselves, in their purity, without any thematic constraints. The selected works, which are the result of a continuous close scrutiny in their respective studios, reveal a number of common processual elements: a glance at their productions as a whole suggests that we are facing works which, despite their obviousness, demand adequate viewing time and give the vibration of the act that becomes image to the spectator. The vis à vis between the two artists is set up intimately and densely in the gallery space. In Carlo Guaita's paintings, on the wall, we witness a constant revolution of the support, which varies among canvas, steel and cement, and becomes mirror-image and reverberation of an infinite constellation of signs, with a precise reference to the history of scientific thought, geology and cosmology. Emanuele Becheri's sculptures, intended as "the possibility of turning the earth into images", according to the artist's definition, are placed in the centre of the room and generate figures that seek their completeness in the all-round gaze. In both cases, the depth of the surface, condensing and expanding, invites the gaze by showing the internal struggle for the creation of an image.
