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Marcello Vigoni | EGOSISTEMI | The synthesis of opposites

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MA-EC Gallery in Milan hosts from 19 February to 19 March 2025 EGOSISTEMI’, the solo exhibition by Marcello Vigoni, curated by Elisabetta Bacchin and organised by Techne Art Service.


EGOSISTEMI illustrates the career of Milanese artist Marcello Vigoni, covering a time span that goes from 2017 to the present. In it, works pertaining to three major projects (‘Landscapes from the Unconscious’, ‘Multiverse’ and “Please Save Devero”), which are the result of the exploration of concepts gravitating around philosophy, biocentrism, spirituality, ethics and the concept of the utilitarian human vision.


In this exhibition, the focus is particularly on the processes of human appropriation of the environment, which is by man, who is increasingly alienated from nature. According to Vigoni, man is incapable of observing a place enjoying its fullness and simple existence but, on the contrary, there is an inherent need to decompose the world and label it, understand it in order to possess it. No longer ecosystems, then, but EGOsystems, in which human interests prevail over nature.


And yet, in his chosen works, this sort of protest against an increasingly fragmented world takes on the tones of poetry, and we find ourselves observing nature with a sense of sweet nostalgia, because it represents a part that, even if buried, is an indelible part of us.


In the artist's works, atavistic scenarios merge with images of everyday urban life, creating settings that arise from the unconscious, of deep inner research. Dreamlike places where true tales come to life in which everything seems suspended and which transport us into a timeless dimension. Photography - preferred in its black and white analogue form - is in fact used by the artist not so much to reproduce reality as to investigate it beyond the boundaries of the ‘visible’. There is a calm sensation of calm that accompanies the visual narrative, interrupting the chaotic flow of everyday life, capturing the senses and leading the viewer to the ‘visible’.


Inspired by the thought of Heraclitus, according to whom harmony is nothing other than a synthesis of opposites, Vigoni investigates them and places them in a fertile dialogue: present and infinite, real and unreal, light and shadow, are all antithetical poles and, at the same time, synthesis of the same reality. This ‘poetics of opposites’, as we might define it, has reminiscences in the conceptual operation that Magritte implemented in creating paradoxical and unusual juxtapositions, often identifiable only upon a second and more careful observation, which lead one to reflect on the boundaries of reality: what is true and what is fiction? Where is the dividing line?


In close dialogue with the other exhibition rooms, the exhibition will also feature a video installation, an intense reflection on life as a metaphor. The work is divided into three chapters representing the birth, maturity and old age of the soul, of the human being. Water becomes the fil rouge, the narrative element that is compared to the rhythm of life itself. The work is conceptually linked to EGOSISTEMI, as it reflects on the relationship betthat is built around him is nothing but a pure abstraction, which has nothing to do with the real.


Venice, January 2025

Elisabetta Bacchin


Useful Information

Artist

Marcello Vigoni


Project, exhibition curated by: Elisabetta Bacchin

Organised by: Techne Art Service techneartservice.com


Vernissage:

Wednesday 19 February 2025 - 6 pm


Location:

MA-EC Gallery

Via Santa Maria Valle 2, Milan ma-ec.it

Facebook: MA-EC

Instagram: maecgallery


Dates:

19 February to 19 March 2025

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 10-13/15-19 Saturday 3pm-7pm

Closed Sunday and Monday


Info and contact details: info.milanart@gmail.com

Tel: 0239831335

Thanks to: Rossetti Group s.r.l and Eletech S.r.l.



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