Alessia Iannetti's dreamlike atmospheres on display in Rome with Aurora Consurgens Reprise

There is time until July 11 to see, at Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome, the new solo exhibition of Alessia Iannetti (Carrara, 1985) entitled Aurora Consurgens Reprise, curated by Alexandra Mazzanti. On display are graphites on panel by Alessia Iannetti, a student of Omar Galliani (one of the greatest contemporary draftsmen), and internationally recognized for the technical mastery and spiritual content of her works. For the occasion, Iannetti brings to Rome a series of ten works that is placed temporally as a homogeneous and coherent continuation of the path preannounced in the series Daphne Descends, also exhibited at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome in 2013, and again leads the viewer “on a long journey of initiation that allows him to access the new life that would increase spirit,” in the words of the artist herself.

Inspired by the initiatory and philosophical rituals not only of Greek and Siberian mythology and religion, but also close to the study of alchemy perpetrated at length in the medieval centuries (think of, among others, the text of the same name by Thomas d’Aquinas), Iannetti’s series presented at the Roman gallery once again leads its viewer back to the classical woods and landscapes of the artist’s iconography, with the addition of further stylistic complexity and power, traceable to the artist’s very strong attraction to the themes of Beauty, Love and Magic. Transformation once again remains the main theme of the artist’s works, who wants to open with his canvases a path of redemption that is also an initiatory path, toward redemption and understanding of one’s own behaviors and mistakes. Concepts such as Catabasis and Anabasis, Yggdrasil and Vitriolum, present and very strong in Greek, Norse and alchemical-medieval philosophies, are intertwined in the series on display, all going to indicate the path of metamorphosis in which, to conclude always in Iannetti’s words, “wild woods teeming with curiosity are still the materialization of my inner world. The female figure is always the protagonist; she could represent the transposition of my soul into the work, or perhaps the reflection of the viewer in a scenario created to be shared.”

“The works of Aurora Consurgens,” the artist explains, "clearly recall the same mystical atmosphere as my previous compositions. Wild woods teeming with curiosity are still the materialization of my inner world. The female figure is always the protagonist; she may represent the transposition of my soul into the work, or perhaps the reflection of the viewer in a scenario created to be shared. The theme of transformation is again essential, and the earlier series Daphne Descends is an example of how transmutation represents the only escape route to freedom for innocent souls. In this exhibition, we once again face a transition, but something has changed. The metamorphosis in question is much more complex; it is an explosion of spiritual energy that needs to express itself. The suspended stillness now gives way to a whirlwind of movement; light wants to reveal its power and suddenly awakens woods that have been asleep for centuries. Nature wants to scream her secrets that are no longer whispers; the glittering wings carry a message laden with awareness, the maidens who will receive it now have their eyes wide open and alert, to catch every change present in the air. Aurora is coming, and she will make beauty triumphant through an eternal return of spring."

“Mistress of darkness and of the most intense Noir d’auteur,” writes curator Alexandra Mazzanti, “Iannetti does not choose to seduce through fear or disquiet, but pushes our gaze toward an’intimate other dimension, in which rational parameters are reversed as in a dream and it is silence that speaks, of fragile wingbeats, of the hidden swollen heart, inhabited by the many colors of beauty and ready to let itself implode to bring them to light. His works are pervaded by a nocturnal mysticism, inspired by the dark notes of Anglo-Saxon Dark imagery (to which the artist makes precise reference by paying homage to the titles of his works authors such as Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, The Cure, Hole...), but they suggest an extremely elaborate Theme of theShadow extremely elaborate that brings in both the sublime liberty of Corcos’, Rossetti’s and Khnopff’s painting, and the hypnotic personal, romantic and dusty figure of Margaret Cameron’s, Lady Hawarden’s and Lewis Carroll’s own photography, emphasizing a spontaneous theatricality of the characters. The artist created twelve illustrations for this surreal fairy tale, creating a close link between the words of the writers and the evocative language of her art. The story told is revealed to our eyes through a sublime and dreamlike vision, transporting us beyond time and space to a soul trapped in darkness, which is finally reborn through the light of hope.”

The exhibition opens Tuesday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., weekends from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free admission. For information visit the gallery website.

Pictured: Alessia Iannetti, Saturn’s Whisper (2019; graphite on board, 40 x 50 cm)

Alessia Iannetti's dreamlike atmospheres on display in Rome with Aurora Consurgens Reprise

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