EARTH AIR SPACE
From 11/10/2021 To 01/11/2021
Mohsen Baghernejad, Gisella Chaudry, Fabio Perino.
The Raffaella De Chirico gallery, the second in the new Milanese location, is a collective attempt to communicate between heaven and earth. Earth, Air and Space. Elements and concepts, material and incorporeal.
The work of Mohsen Baghernejad (Tehran, 1988), Today, is a manual engraving on a slab of slate, Silence Outside, Outside Silence and comes from a letter written by Linda Nochlin in 1974, "Letter to a young woman as artist". In the letter, addressing a young artist, Nochlin writes: "Being strong means (...) that you look firmly towards the outside, even what you most want is to collapse inside". For many years Baghernejad has been treating the support material, albeit difficult, as a sheet on which to write cryptic sentences with different, fascinating interpretations. In this case, slate, a metamorphic rock of sedimentary origin, the quarry, the earth already a repository of geological memory.
Point of Contact by Gisella Chaudry (Partinico, 1989), is a large round work, about 200 cm in diameter, made up of slabs of black singed polystyrene, thermoformed with kitchen spoons of different sizes. The result of the work is a fascinating communication between the terrestrial and lunar worlds: small craters are part of a whole, of a planet that is surface but also air and space.
Precisely the brightness and iridescent reflections characterize the work Untitled, by Fabio Perino (Turin, 1990) which is a synthesis of earth and sky, of the human and the divine, it is the space that includes the Whole, (a space that in the two previous works was potentially through a breakthrough of the materials, in Today an engraving of a marble slab and in Punto dicontact a fusion of the polystyrene that makes up a large lunar crater surface). The materials represent the search for being towards the transcendent: the use of gold symbolizes, even historically, this attempt to
ascent, upwards, towards the sky, personified in the work by aerogel, made up of 99 percent air; finally to materialize the clash with objective reality, that is human finiteness, the melting ice cube, remembering that the time available to man is limited.