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Maniero Associazione Culturale
Via dell'Arancio 79, 00186 Roma
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Italy
Tel.++39 06 68807116
Fax++39 06 68807116
Hours: Tue.-Sat. 4pm-8pm and by appointment
Contact: Liliana Maniero
E-mail: maniero.l@libero.it
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Marco Neri Colpo di sole
Imaginary sounds that whistle through the air like whip-sharp slashes, an overwhelming dizziness as one’s eye is caught up in a mass of detail, the feeling of floating in fluid, suspended dimension… No, these are not acid-induced or otherworldly visions. They are some of my reactions to certain paintings. To be precise: the paintings of Marco Neri. Each one of his works, in fact, is like an aquarium: drowning one’s emotions and rendering the honest spirit of his iconography eternal. Reasserting the unchanged nature of painterly themes, the artist reminds the viewer that only an oblique view can “conceptualize” forms beyond their appearance. Neri layers the emotive mechanisms in his paintings with dry structures, guiding us in our mental journey to a realism of x-ray clarity. His works elucidate that reality exists in they way we look at things, in the way we interpret a layer of dry skin, in the way we evaluate whether an archetype will expand our concept of streets, houses, skies, landscapes, airplanes, flags. Neri’s paintings depict the things we have seen that lurk at the very back of our mind. We need only think of how many buildings our eyes scan over as we make our way through the city. Yet, we only recall brief flashes, because our brains synthesize what we have seen into specific archetypes. Adapting his style and his palette to evoke the chambers of the mind, Neri’s painting reflects the parts of our imagination that become images. The range of cold light tones dazzles us, grabs our attention, and challenges our false certainties. The viewer is left standing in a “ray of sunshine”: it runs between the angles of the buildings, between the psychological games played by a Japanese sun, between the pixels of a digital moon, between the windows of a grid that looks out onto the unknown. Neri presents us with architectures that speak to us about personal memories, sentimental journeys, our doubts, and our intuitions. We stare at his buildings and windows aware that they are something more than simply places. To sense the internal essence of these forms offers us a useful code by which to live our own inner landscapes. It also tells us something more about painting. And even more about the paintings and ideas of Marco Neri.
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Colpo di sole - invitation
2001
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