Praise to the Night

May 19th - July 7th 2019

“Art, today perhaps more than ever, is a rhizomatic path, often elliptical in the dynamics of the figurable. It arises from other art and often the links with nature are lost. Complicating the issue here is also the theme of the exhibition: the night, therefore, romantically, darkness and mystery. Stefania Orrù and Cetty Previtera reconnect with nature through a practice that has its roots in a painting of matter, whose stratifications on the one hand lose the relationship with the visible and on the other reinvent it through a dense fabric of colors and iridescences. One can also think of the skies of Anselm Kiefer. The title, chosen by Peppe Cona for this exhibition in the spaces of Scalamatrice 33, is taken from a book by Claudio Marucchi. For their "hymn with half-closed eyes", thus continues the same title of the cited book, Cetty and Stefania use different pictorial techniques: mainly Cetty oil, Orrù lands and oxides, on a base of scagliola and marble dust. An organic and dust-proof nature is sung softly in Stefania's works […]”

- Alessandro Finocchiaro