FABRIZIO GAZZARRI

Redness

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Rossori, 2019

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Rossori, 2019 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 170 x 53 cm cad / Fabrizio Gazzarri, Limits (Tightrope), 2019 – Galvanized steel cable, 1023 inch

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OPENING:  Saturday, 09 March 2019 – H. 6.00 pm

11 March 2019 – 30 May 2019

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Curated by DIEGO MANTOAN.

The paintings by Fabrizio Gazzarri at the heart of his new exhibition, opening on March 9 at Artericambi Gallery (Verona), enable a kind of concentration that seems impossible to gain in today’s frantic world. The large monochrome canvases on the walls do not simply create a meditative space, they further act as catalysts for a spiritual elevation. The lines scudding along the picture surface produce infinite nuances like the rivulets of conscience, when it is left suddenly free to wander.

One thread runs through all new artworks on show in Verona, starting with the metal line of the stretched cable that the artist uses to split the space: it is clear-cut, mid air, holding two invisible parts in vibrant equilibrium. Spectators find themselves busy conquering the room, but the cable doesn’t obstruct their vision. The tightrope forces the eye to constantly bounce between the paintings on the walls and the mirroring steel. The void is thus filled with a growing charge that culminates in the redness triptych, where it reaches an unstable objectification. In another place, the thread thickens and turns into a colored rope, which is again tied to knots and tangled up into an inextricable pile of interrelations. In such form the rope already appeared in Autumn 2018 in the shape of the impressive environmental installation Rosario delle Assenze inside the former Austro-Hungarian barracks of Santa Marta. Almost a new beating heart for the building awarded at the Milan Triennial for the best conservation project, two masses of ropes rotate in the space at imperceptible speed, thus creating a force filed permeating every visitor and every stone of the ancient edifice.

The works on show at Artericambi effuse that same energy, a sort of spiritual magnetism that allows spectators to enter a different dimension: of their perception and conscience. The monochrome aspect of the paintings neither stops at color alone nor at its movement on the surface, on the contrary it elevates the mind up into a contemplative ecstasy. Suddenly one is set in perfect harmony with everything, finding equilibrium as thin as a line, tense as a rope, though absolute like an unintelligible algorithm.

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Fabrizio Gazzarri, Installazione mostra "Rossori 2", 2019

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Installation view “Redness”, 2019

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BIO

Fabrizio Gazzarri, in 1973 he began to paint in the studio of his sculptor father and decided to devote himself to the experience of art. In 1980 he began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice as an assistant to the Painting Course of Emilio Vedova and, in 1988, at the Sommerakademie in Salzburg. From 1980 to 2006 he was assistant and then collaborator of Emilio Vedova also in his studio, participates and actively contributes to the complex and articulated activity following the realization of numerous exhibitions in the most important international institutions, museums and galleries, the printing of books and catalogs, relations with the art system et al.

In 2003 he moved to the Brera Academy of Fine Arts where he taught Contemporary Expressive Problems and collaborated, for a few years, in the Alberto Garutti Course. He passionately devotes himself to teaching and curates some exhibitions of young artists in Italy and abroad such as in 1997 Two Dimensions – Zwei Dimensionen, Young Art in Italy and Germany with M. Leyer-Pritzkow and Luigi Viola in Venice and Cologne. His exhibition activity takes place especially in Düsseldorf in Germany where he has gone several times for long periods of work and numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2006 he was appointed Director of the Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation and is in charge of the Archive and Collection and exhibition activity. Among the exhibitions he has recently curated at the Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation, Renzo Piano is remembered in 2018. Water Projects, in 2017 Emilio Vedova De America, in 2016 Emilio Vedova Drawings with G. Celant, Vedova and Baselitz at the Duisburg Museum with W. Smerling.

In October 2018 he created the imposing installation Rosario delle Assenze (2004-2018) inside the former Santa Marta barracks in Verona, already protagonist of the inauguration of the ArtVerona fair and soon a permanent work of the University of Verona.

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(SINISTRA) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Rossori 1 (Alien), 2019 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 170 x 135 cm / (CENTRO) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Rossori 2 (Smirk), 2019 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 170 x 135 cm / (SINISTRA) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Rossori 3 (a Tobi), 2019 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 170 x 135 cm

(LEFT) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Redness 1 (Alien), 2019 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 66 x 53 inch / (MIDDLE) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Redness 2 (Smirk), 2019 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 66 x 53 inch / (RIGHT) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Redness 3 (to Tobi), 2019 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 66 x 53 inch / (BELOW) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Redness 1, 2, 3 (Details) 

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Algoritmo dell'anima, 2018 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 114 x 88 cm

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Algorithm of the soul, 2018 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 56 x 34 inch

(SINISTRA) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Invalid 1 (Rosso), 2018 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 170 x 135 cm / (DESTRA) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Invalid 2 (Blu), 2018 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 170 x 135 cm

(LEFT) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Invalid 1 (Red), 2018 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 66 x 53 inch / (RIGHT) Fabrizio Gazzarri, Invalid 2 (Blue), 2018 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 66 x 53 inch

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Alien, 2018 - Pittura acrilica su tela, 140 x 100 cm

Fabrizio Gazzarri, Alien, 2018 – Acrylic paint on canvas, 55 x 39 inch