Anarchetipi/Sinestesico

26th august – 13th september 2022
inauguration friday 26th august 2022, at 18,00

Catalogue with a critical text by Giuliano Serafini

Art as a visual deception, by means of overlapping reading levels, is what the Anarchetypes/Synaethesic exhibition by the artist Filippo Moretti investigates.

Moretti’s work calls into question, in pseudo-instructive terms, the great theme of the “place” of representation, or rather its topical value, its erratic location inside and outside the work, in that no man’s land which in art has lead to becoming ‘space’. A ‘space’ which, in the 16 works entitled “Anarchetypes” and in the 2 major works entitled “Interferences”, is defined by the square, which has always been a paradigmatic setting of representation, a window from which the world can manifest itself to our gaze.

Here the artist performs his synaesthetic “step”, moving from the category of what – consisting of a series of 16 paintings of 33×33 cm each – to that of how much  represented by the magnification of the measure in the two aforementioned works of 150×150 cm.

The enlargement of the image actually denies that variant which our perceptual and psychic quotient is able to assimilate. It equates the quantitative factor with anti-measure which, if not physical, is certainly ideal, that is to say a value that approaches a form of abstraction.

In the artist’s works, of anti-illusionistic photographic visions reproducing African scenes, there is the superimposition of reality given by gesture and matter. Deep strokes of oil colour emerge from the physical limits of the work and significant materials, objets trouvés,  acquire a disturbing function and are symbols of lived experiences.