In Genoa, Mauro Ghiglione stars in the exhibition Imaginary Theorems, at Villa Croce

From Nov. 21, 2019 to Feb. 16, 2020, the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa will host the exhibition Teoremi Immaginari by artist Mauro Ghiglione (Genoa, 1959), curated by Antonio d’Avossa.

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with theDepartment of Culture of the City of Genoa and UnimediaModern Contemporary Art by Caterina Gualco, with the support of FINECO Bank and Clinica Montallegro, and will remain open until Feb. 16, 2020, Tuesday through Friday, 2 to 6 p.m.-Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

An artist of conceptual derivation, who has never shied away from the values of form and matter, influenced by the experiences of both Minimal Art andArte Povera that have exclusively determined some of his aesthetic choices, Ghiglione, as Antonio d’Avossa points out in the catalog: has among his recent references many works by Fabio Mauri, Vincenzo Agnetti, Franco Vaccari, Christian Boltanski or Joseph Kosuth.

The investigation that, for many years, Mauro Ghiglione has activated with his artistic practice is first a reflection on the place and the role that the image plays in our daily and extraordinary seeing, ultimately on the appearance and disappearance of the image itself, in “memory” and “forgotten in memory” at the same time. From this side, Ghiglione has always activated, in his exhibition forms and stylistic features, a mode of use of the photographic image that modifies its sense of vision not only from the perceptual point of view but especially from the intuitive point of view, which is then the real point from which the image is always viewed. Through this singular procedure the artist establishes a real relationship or conversation between the order of the visible and the order of the legible, ultimately between the image and its own word.

The relationship with the photographic image is essential, however meager, and allows him, on the one hand, to pursue the search for the mental mechanisms underlying the birth of the image itself and the reasons for its being and, on the other, to address issues more closely related to a poetics of contemporaneity. (His work Alteratamente sani made on Emidio Greco ’s film L’invenzione di Morel is famous.)

Finally, his linguistic research does not conceal the desire to subtract the photographic specificity from the image in order to address its questioning. To this end, the artist uses technology to produce images, often in low definition, with the clear and intentional awareness that the digital has supplanted the image by becoming itself a habitat.

For all information you can call +39 010 580069, send an email to info@museovillacroce.eu visit the official website of Villa Croce.

Pictured: a work by Mauro Ghiglione

Source: press release

In Genoa, Mauro Ghiglione stars in the exhibition Imaginary Theorems, at Villa Croce

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