Milan, Silvia Negrini's rarefied universe on display at Antonio Colombo gallery

Starting Feb. 20, Galleria Antonio Colombo in Milan is hosting Densamente Spopolato, the new solo exhibition by Silvia Negrini (Sondrio, 1982), curated by Ivan Quaroni and installed in the Magic Bus project room. The exhibition opens in conjunction with Anamnesi, the exhibition dedicated to Arduino Cantafora, which occupies the gallery’s other spaces.

Negrini’s painting, while minimal and synthetic, never completely abandons figuration. His subjects - landscapes, interiors and objects arranged with methodical precision - are always recognizable, but devoid of any emotional participation. The absence of human figures, which transforms these scenarios into silent, suspended spaces, is a distinctive feature of his pictorial research.

A language between abstraction and reality

While pushing the boundaries of abstraction, Negrini remains faithful to an analog representation of reality. His painting is constructed through a grammar dominated by geometric and perspectival rigor: objects are synthesized into logical and regular forms, subdivided with extreme precision on the pictorial surface.

The artist works by subtraction, reducing the image to a series of essential elements, composed in a visual balance that eliminates all redundancy. This formalist approach, characterized by an economy of minimal gestures, results in a painting that captures the imperturbability of things and their unchanging nature. The painted scenes are thus transformed into static backdrops, devoid of movement and human presence, like waiting places or silent witnesses of an event that has just happened.

Silvia Negrini, a path of research between synthesis and form

Silvia Negrini, born in Sondrio in 1982 and living in Milan, trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, developing a pictorial research that explores minimalism as a tool for representing reality. Her works describe isolated and desolate spaces with a rigorous construction, aiming at the essence of forms and structures.

Over the years, she has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including VIR, Via Farini in Residence in 2022 and E_solo Silvia Negrini at Luogo-E, curated by Luciano Passoni and Federica Mutti in Bergamo in 2022 and Muri d’artista, curated by Rossella Farinotti for the Cittadella degli archivi of the City of Milan. Densamente Spopolato represents a further stage in this journey, offering an even more refined and synthetic vision of his artistic research.

For all information, you can visit the official website of Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea.

Pictured: Silvia Negrini, Summer pool (2024), enamel on canvas.

Milan, Silvia Negrini's rarefied universe on display at Antonio Colombo gallery

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