Gianni Brusamolino's works are on display in the spaces of the Massa Cathedral

The exhibition Gianni Brusamolino: from the flow of life to cosmic infinity, dedicated to contemporary artist Gianni Brusamolino (Cassano d’Adda, 1928), is scheduled at the Cathedral of Massa from June 9 to September 2, 2018. The exhibition, curated by Alice Procopio and articulated in the spaces of the Baptistery, the Cybo-Malaspina Burial Ground and the Cloister of the Cathedral, aims to retrace Brusamolino’s production dedicated to the themes of the river and energesis. In particular, the theme of the river marks, in fact, the Master’s initial and “violent” awareness of the temporal category, and is placed chronologically at the dawn of his artistic trajectory, in the early 1960s. That of Energenesis, on the other hand, constitutes its final chapter, still in elaboration, and is centered on a philosophical-scientific analysis related to the Higgs Boson. The works displayed in the spaces of the Massese cathedral are presented to the public for the first time.

“My current iter,” said the artist, “consists of using the language of painting to give the Higgs a material plasticity and image because of new cultural, cognitive and so on awareness. Energenesis is synergy between art and science, and given the complexity of the theme, I suggest observing the work in silence, if possible, avoiding questions, leaving one’s soul uncritically free in front of the Higgs’ mystery image.”

“The River,” says curator Alice Procopio, on the other hand, “represents existence, iconographically ascribable to the category of ’real,’ a state of affairs and potential object of sensory experiences. Energenesis binds, instead, to Being and goes configured at the same time as ’substantial narrative’ and ’perspective vision.’ Essence is in fact complex of elements that qualify, differentiating it, a given object from another, but also Possibility of Being, that which allows a potential life to become actual life, and therefore existence.”

Marco Marinacci, a critic who conceived the exhibition project and who has long been involved in Gianni Brusamolino’s work, argues that the artist “in his long artistic career has never stopped reflecting on the human dimension, placing it in relation to the problem of existence and one’s ontological identity.He has always done so in purely aesthetic terms, so much so that he has given form to a language that traces the flow of life back to the primary signifiers: thus, in the 1960s, River, the poetics of existence, was born. After fifty years, the reflection comes to the problem of giving form to Being, and the answer can only be of a compositional nature. Two seemingly opposite dimensions find themselves in the artist’s work to share the deepest dialogue and reappropriate that nexus between sign and light, which alone can create a syncretic belonging to the intimate nature of man.”

Gianni Brusamolino: from the flow of life to the cosmic infinite can be visited free of charge daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The exhibition represents the second chapter of the Tempo dell’Essere, tempo dell’esistere cycle, is supported by the patronage of the Regional Council of the Region of Tuscany, the Province of Massa Carrara and the Municipality of Massa, and was conceived by Centro Studi Milano ’900, and promoted by it together with Diocese of Massa Carrara and Pontremoli, San Domenichino Cultural Association, Primato Foundation, Italy Hong-Kong Association, Propellers’ Club The Port of Milan, Pro Torano Association, ContainerLab, Ugo Guidi House Museum.

Pictured: Gianni Brusamolino, Wheat Field (1961; oil on canvas)

Gianni Brusamolino's works are on display in the spaces of the Massa Cathedral

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