Senza Filtro – Gianni Lucchesi and Lorenzo Cecilioni’s bi-personal exhibition

The artistic encounter between Gianni Lucchesi and Lorenzo Cecilioni triggers the magic of transformation, both physical and intellectual: a dialogue in which the essentiality of the structure does not deny the aesthetics of the form, giving rise to a sort of compositional brutalism, understood in its conceptual manifestation as a clear exposition of the structure and enhancement of the materials, which show themselves in their true nature, without superstructures and compromises.

Lucchesi starts with the concept and creates the relationship, Cecilioni guides the elements and places the composition. The two artists are united by their love of material, their compositional sensitivity, their preference for essential, raw materials destined for raw expressiveness. Another element, for different reasons, unites them, namely the symbolic aspect of materials and their chemical-symbolic connotation. Both of them, like alchemists, work to transform matter in order to transform themselves.

The artistic research in the exhibition Senza Filtro wants to draw attention to the brutalism of relationships, of relations, of today’s society. Human beings can also reveal themselves to be brutal, when they show aspects that are crude, essential, and yet true. And it is precisely the investigation into the concept of reality and fiction that occupies a large space in the two artists’ analysis. The intention, therefore, is to take a step backwards, considered, in truth, as a leap towards the essence, to bring us closer to the fascination of constructing a reality that is true, not invented, nor artificial. The idea of subtraction is developed here from a conceptual and social point of view, also applicable to the way we perceive what we see and experience. What remains, by choosing to remove rather than add, is the bare and brutal backbone of the concept, the essentiality of the real, without frills or deception. A search with four hands and two minds, aimed at rediscovering the ability to break the surface, sometimes fake, in favour of a less conspicuous but imposing and solid reality, like truth.