Maurizio Donzelli and Paola Pezzi, double solo exhibition in Brescia.

A dialogue between two artists, Maurizio Donzelli (1958) and Paola Pezzi (1963) in an exhibition, entitled Spellbound, scheduled from July 6 to Sept. 3 at Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco in Brescia. This is the third exhibition stage of “Una Generazione di Mezzo” (a multi-year project dedicated to contemporary Brescian art) and is organized by the Associazione Meccaniche della Meraviglia. A double solo show with two curators, Turin-based Alberto Fiz for Donzelli and Rome-based Marco Tonelli for Pezzi, articulated in the spaces of Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco in Brescia.

"Spellbound,“ ”enchanted,“ ”bewitched," is the term, used by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1945 film of the same name (in Italian it was called Io ti salverò) with which he alludes to the psycho-emotional states of the two protagonists, namely the man played by Gregory Peck (John Ballantine) suffering from amnesia following a trauma and the character of Dr. Constance Peterson, played by Ingrid Bergman, a psychoanalyst enchanted by love. A man and a woman whose first meeting is an obvious thunderbolt for both of them, constructed filmically in a very “magical” and romantic field/counterpoint sequence. With this term, in the exhibition project that sees Maurizio Donzelli and Paola Pezzi in dialogue in Summer 2023, we thus want to allude both to that enchantment that the relative has towards the work and to the meeting between two artists who have tried to let themselves be mutually enchanted by their respective visual investigations. A sequence of works that are also embedded and mirrored by merging into the path in the exhibition, calling the audience to an intense visual immersion and seducing their gaze. The graphic project in the exhibition, developed by the third-year students of the School of Graphic Design of theSantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, coordinated by Francesca Rosina and Massimo Tantardini, also synthesizes the curatorial concept and artistic dialogue.

Maurizio Donzelli questions the beginning of the iconic process and the modalities of the gaze, going to search in the ornamental for the embroideries and filaments of our stratified cultural and philosophical geography. His works are enigmas of latent images that surface and immerse themselves in the stratifications of color and sign, activators of each relative’s iconic heritage: works as laboratories, capable of generating an efflorescence of images that intertwine on each other, between distant echoes and latent iconic principles. His work could thus represent the value of space as geography and trespassing of the gaze. For the “Spellbound” exhibition, the artist presents various cycles of works: the "Drawings, “ ”Tapestries,“ ”Mirrors,“ ”O’s,“ ”Nocturnes,“ ”Pinwheels,“ and ”Lux Drawing. " An overview of his entire poetics, intended to constitute a true anthology.

Paola Pezzi is the alchemist of materials: everyday objects, scraps and remnants of poor and forgotten materials in her hands become luxuriant plastic objects that emerge from the walls. The metamorphoses of matter told by her works arise from the encounter between the wisdom of manual gesture, the slowness of skillful conceptual composition, and the poetic, ancestral feminine component evoked by the weaving and interweaving that predominate in the compositional practice of her work. Her work could represent the path of matter as gesture and trace of making. In the exhibition she presents a path from the 1980s/90s, with the primal works born from the earth, proceeding to the various discoveries over the years to the present. A kind of sampling, through families of works, recreated just for this place.

Maurizio Donzelli and Paola Pezzi, double solo exhibition in Brescia.

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