Rome, z2o project presents Cesare Tacchi in exhibition

Cesare Tacchi A House of Leaves and Sheets is the title of the exhibition scheduled at the z2o project exhibition spaces in Rome from February 19, 2022 to April 9, 2022. Curated by Daniela Bigi in collaboration with the Cesare Tacchi Archive, the exhibition offers an immersion into the pictorial world of the great Cesare Tacchi (Rome, 1940 - 2014) by following two dimensions of thought that he focused on starting in the early 1980s and on which he worked for a long time, the forest and the garden, mysterious and symbolic the former, rational and plannable the latter.

Two metaphors dear to art history and philosophy, which Tacchi elaborated in entirely autonomous terms as he investigated how to want to be an artist and how to want to understand language, questions that held specific importance within his poetics.

“With the complex register that marked his proceeding,” writes curator Daniela Bigi in the catalog, “rigorous, enigmatic, inventive, problematic, and always inherently playful, the selection of works in the exhibition thus follows one of the possible paths that loomed at a certain point in his research, when precisely the forest appeared, a container of secrets, a profound place in which the artist (bird of the forest) could activate his world of images, but also the original moment in which words took shape and sound, that primary element of verbal language that mediated relations with reality all, including the natural one. Words that in their essentiality became now object now image, and that some time later found a nest among the ordered and repeated leaves of the garden, a ground of elective solitude where the very root of existential nexuses could be identified and shared. ”Those recurring grids of leaves,“ he continues, ”now more drawn and arabesque, now more geometric and stylized, became meanwhile grids of sheets, and with crystalline awareness told of the importance of abstraction and concealment to better reveal. Silent and controlled patterns, which, as had already happened in the tapestries of the 1960s, made explicit the irreducible conceptual essence of all of Cesare Tacchi’s work, from object-paintings to object-paintings, from performances to room designs, from countless drawings to all of his rich and courageous pictorial production.

Thus, from the symbolic figurativeness of a work such as The Thinking between the Doing (Misery), the exhibition path leads to the amused iterations of Black Le aves and White Le aves and, passing through metaphysical territories (Metaphysics) and original visions (Mutter), it resolves into the great red of Journey to the End of the Night according to the canons of painting, where leaves and sheets are recomposed in a mysterious and reasoned synthesis, in the field of an obligatory daily exercise."

The exhibition, for which a preview is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 18, 20200 (11 a.m.-7 p.m.) is open by appointment only. For info: T. +39 06 70452261 | info@z2ogalleria.it

Rome, z2o project presents Cesare Tacchi in exhibition

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