DIALOGUE BETWEEN ARTIST AND CURATOR 

Curator Alessandra Redaelli meets artist Alessandra Gasparini.

On Friday, October 18, 2024, at 6 p.m., Alessandra Redaelli will be in Genoa to open a dialogue with artist Alessandra Gasparini. The meeting is open to all interested and will be an opportunity to learn more about the artist and her world, surrounded by her works. The event will be held at our gallery in Via Chiabrera 33r, in the historic center of Genoa.

During this meeting it will also be possible to visit the exhibition “Red is Vindictive” by Alessandra Gasparini, curated by Alessndra Redaelli.

Below is an excerpt from the critical text of the exhibition, written by Alessandra Redaelli:

Alessandra Gasparini possesses a world, inside, so imposing and so packed with suggestions and images that when it gushes onto the canvas it stretches there in complex narratives, impossible to grasp at first glance. Paintings of slow construction, impeccable in the concatenation of logical connections and yet imbued with an instinctuality that does not go unnoticed, a wild creativity, which is then the ingredient of enchantment. “A continuous barter between my mind and the painting,” is how the artist defines the creative process. With a first mental plan and a first deliberately rough sketch, not very detailed, because paradoxically it is precisely the detail here that determines the space of gesture and freedom, of improvisation, of the brush that goes following its own internal music. And this letting go of the painting’s will is such that it forces her, sometimes, to add a piece of canvas, underneath the painting she has started. For her narrative must go on and cannot be stopped. After all, Gasparini appears just like that: instinct and reason, Sturm und Drang and Encyclopédie. Opposites that meet on the canvases in the tight dialogue between the surgical meticulousness of detail and the abstract, free gesture that Gasparini often reserves for the edges. Because she fell in love with drawing as a child, but then she was able to go further, choosing to delve into abstraction in order to get inside color, but above all to learn how to deconstruct reality, to disrupt vision and thus find her own authentic voice.

Protagonists of his painting are children. Never chosen at random, beautiful with a beauty that is by no means prissy but rather harsh, rough; capable of looks that force us to question ourselves. Children who have not yet lost the ability to believe in themselves typical of childhood, the sense of omnipotence that nails the adult to the relativity of his own convictions. Not yet human, as the artist defines them, certainly not yet tamed by the mask of adulthood.