Francesco Cervelli
's dream * Short Century
Lorenzo Canova
The twentieth century was a contradictory, a century marked by war, tragedy and extraordinary innovations in fact concluded that many consider the 11th September 2001. What Eric J. Hobsbawm has called the "short century" has been crossed in fact in dispute and tension composite, symbolically summed up by the discovery and systematization of Freud's dreams and the unconscious (1900), exponentially accelerating scientific discovery, symbolically inaugurated by Einstein's relativity In 1905, the positive utopia of the world transformed by the historical avant-garde and those tragically negative of totalitarian regimes.
In his exhibition project, Francesco Cervelli has managed dialogue with the ideologies and the symbolic images of the last century, in a series of paintings represents a kind of brain scan of the twentieth century, a journey inside of his unconscious, personal and collective, a route from the room of Dr. Freud to get to the Buddha destroyed by Taliban in Afghanistan, direct antecedent of the attack on the Twin Towers. The painter is so deep down in the nucleus of the twentieth century, taking the "icons" that trace the path of a dream, the streets of an ideology that, through the instruments and meters "positive" science, he aspired to understand and master nature man even into the darkest depths of creation and the soul. As a diver, Brains came down in this sea to reconstruct the events of his visionary and exemplary tale, to reconstruct the moments that have indelible mark on those hundred years, making emerge from the waters of time and memory images and mysterious, often baffling, combining Freud's couch to a landscape of Villa Borghese in Rome, painting technique with "dots" in the parallelism between the desire to codify lands "underground" of the dream and the representation of the world around us through the rigorous scientific tools of psychoanalysis and the laws of optics, thus opening a series of visual scenarios that could still leave the Roman Villa Borghese, from Deer Park divisionist painting by Giacomo Balla (the painter of "Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe"), to touch controlled hallucinations Surrealism, finally arriving at the pixels that make up the video and digital mosaics.
The artist, in his night crossing, but also discovers the wounds and scars of the twentieth century, from Hiroshima to the Berlin Wall, reassembles the most cruel features in paintings where the representation is ambiguously suspended between a sense of "emergence" from darkness of the past, including the discovery of deleted fragments of pain, removed pieces of suffering, and a sort of liquefaction striking images, a decomposition which perhaps alludes not only to the "vanity of all things", but also a kind the feeling of the end of time and history, of pessimism, which struck on the certainty of ideologies, thought and art.
The painter, then, on its way back, in his "return to the mountain, talking about the past, unable to even allude to the uncertainty of our times, the disillusionment of an era that ended leaving behind large empty itself, likely to identify a new center and a new direction in the very act of painting, the essence of his language, in its analytical quality and virtue in his "shamanic" to enter the heart of reality, communication and media revealing the face and objective reasons. Thanks to the painting, perhaps Brains discovers his goal, the end of his pilgrimage interior, the focal point of renewal and rebirth symbolism found in the forest which concludes the exhibition, in the hope that, after the horrors of a century, even that place has not suffered the fate of similar areas, and that because of cruelty and blindness of man also that forest has lost all its inhabitants to remain permanently empty.
* text published in the catalog of the exhibition "Back to the mountain" by Francesco Cervelli, 9 via the Gallery showcase contemporary art, Rome, April 2005
Francisco Cervelli (Rome, 1965, lives in Rome)
Solo Exhibitions 1994 Barefoot, C. Cultural Center Levi, Genzano di Roma, 1995 Narciso without mirror, Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome, 1996 title without a body, the narwhal Gallery, Velletri; 2002 double payment No. 7, Stables Aldobrandini for the Arts, Frascati (with Marco Cingolani) 2005 "Back to the mountain" Gallery Route 9 Showcase Contemporary Art, Rome
Selected group exhibitions: 1996 50 ° Salon Nouvelles de réalités, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris, 1999 The Dream of the Angels, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roof Garden, Rome, 2003 Animal House, Dag Art Gallery, Livorno, 2004 In the Sign of the painting, Galleria Civica d ' Arte Contemporanea, Termoli (CB), Face to Face, the complexity of Madonna delle Grazie, Vitulano, Match, Russo Gallery, Rome, 2005 Award Termoli, Termoli, on the sea the purple, Allen Gallery, Torino; Award Sabaudia, Sabaudia 2006 Route 9 Gallery Showcase Contemporary Art, Rome, Artefiera, Bologna
The work of Francesco Cervelli exposed to Studio 137 to 3 (the first in the top left of this page) is:
-Green, 2002, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Other works published here, from top to bottom, are:
-Stone violated , 2005 oil on canvas 180 x 220 cm, courtesy of the window 9 times contemporary art
-Il grande sogno , 2005, oil on canvas 200 x 280 cm, courtesy 9 via the display contemporary art
- Green, 2002, oil on canvas 200 cm x 280
- Emergent No 3, 2003, oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm
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