Gisella Chaudry | PUNTO DI CONTATTO
From 23/10/2021 To 19/11/2021
The solo show "Punto di Contatto" (Contact Point) by Gisella Chaudry (Palermo, 1989) presented by Raffaella De Chirico Art Gallery in Milan investigates the connections, the contact points, between mobile and immobile, fullness and emptiness, positive and negative. These abstract concepts claim their right to belong to reality by becoming sculptures and pictorial gestures, declaring a link between the existing and the intention to exist.
In Gisella Chaudry's artistic research the Point and the Line are primary. On these topics is founded the basic design of her projects. They are the ancestors of form, born in abstraction, but if ordered they acquire a specific weight and change into concreteness. These two elementary units are immobile presences, unchanging in time, they are archetypes and they have a symbolic value, transcending the normal reading of the world, bringing attention to an atavistic dimension. In Punto di contatto T, where the artistic gesture sinks into the material, the dark monochrome recalls an idea of primordial chaos: the image is impacting and magnetic to the eyes of the viewer, while the large circular dimensions and the crater-like repetition cause an optical play and the parts that make up the artwork seem to be in movement, giving it life.
Indeed, in Gisella Chaudry's artistic investigation, Movement and Energy define and animate the existence of material and immaterial things, in a complementary way to the "raw material" of Point and Line. They are the engines that mark the rhythm of life; they are states of tension leading to conflict between real time and the time of consciousness, especially in today's society, where speed become a resistance and an obsession in defense of the transience of existence. Therefore, the comparison with contemporary society is not overlooked. In Paesaggi (Landscapes) a black line crosses the cracked white of small canvases in sequence, it is a lightning-fast and ephemeral passage. The artworks become images, symbols and places of impermanence and the constant is the feeling of a transitory and mutable state.