At Palazzo Braschi, Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia's work that grew out of a reflection by Pistoletto

The Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi hosts from March 17 to May 7, 2023 the fourth exhibition of Paesaggio, the section of the Quotidiana exhibition cycle conceived and produced by the Quadriennale, in collaboration with Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, to delve into some significant orientations inItalian art of the 21st century.

Within Paesaggio, every two months six curators (three Italians and three foreigners) intend to reflect on artistic trajectories of particular interest through a critical text and an exhibition composed of a few essential works.

The current exhibition features twins Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia (Catania, 1985) and stems from a reflection by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Artistic creation coincides with an existential practice: the work, to use Michelangelo Pistoletto’s words, becomes the “place where the connection, union, integration and fusion of all individual and separate elements takes place.” The artists work in synergy, bringing each project to completion according to a meticulous methodological pattern. They work simultaneously on the same square centimeter of paper support, organized by means of a grid. As this process progresses, the surface registers a dense layering of signs that, gradually overlapping, lead to the construction of a complex image, resolved in the small format.

Novecentist Abstraction (The Red House), part of a series of the same name, is a work made with colored pastels in which a fragmented look at a domestic exterior is rendered. The walls become a threshold between private and public, a sensitive plane of entry to an intimacy of place that we are not allowed access to, leaving room for an imagined or dreamed dimension characterized by a sense of foreignness and melancholy. In the apparent oscillation generated by the artists’ treatment of light, the image conforms as a flickering space, capable of radically expressing a sense of precariousness of experience. The essay can be read by clicking here.

The exhibition has free admission and no reservations, and can be visited Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Image: Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia, on the floor L’insieme vuoto (2016; brass and colored sunflower seed oil, 118 x 118 cm), on the wall Il bosco sacro (2018; pastel on cardboard, 4.9 x 6.7 cm). Photo by Andrea Rossetti.

At Palazzo Braschi, Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia's work that grew out of a reflection by Pistoletto

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