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Maniero Associazione Culturale
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Tel.++39 06 68807116
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Contact: Liliana Maniero
E-mail: maniero.l@libero.it
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Adriano Nardi Vertical horizons
Vertical Horizons, a solo show of paintings by Adriano Nardi (Rio de Janeiro, 1964, of Bolognese origins) is presented by Ludovico Pratesi; the catalogue contains an essay by Gabriele Perretta.
The exhibition, containing the artist’s most recent work, is Nardi’s third solo show to be held in Rome (L’antipop, Museo Laboratorio dell'Università La Sapienza, 1998; Le Naviganti, Futuro, 2000).
Nardi has made use of digital imagery to create oil paintings of female figures in the geometric fluidity of the surrounding space, thus traversing the broad spectrum of potential forms of representation (think only of the visual information available online and its synthetic possibilities). In this way, he has created a setting based on a binary code structure, and found a new iconography of beauty within it.
Nardi’s figurative language supports the painting medium by adopting a sensitive and concise conceptual approach to images that have been digitally selected, structured, and printed (images that come, for example, from the space left by global movements, from scientific research symbols, from environmental or ecological maps, from fields that are not abstract but the product of mind-blowing technical enlargements). And it is in this expansive digital territory that Nardi’s oil-painted women live (micropainted, as the artist describes them): her vital statistics are etched across her body; while a tonal lightness circles the apparently synthetic hues with which she is painted. For many years, Nardi’s own physical energies have been employed in symbolic actions against those new media technologies, which today, at this late stage in the development of the New Economy, aim to provide a synthetic substitute for painting. There can therefore be nothing better, from Seattle (November 30, 1999) on than to live the visual metaphor of these movements of new global thinking, in an attempt to create radically different ways of reasoning and operating.
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