Francesco Pedrini. Nebula

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Curated by Alessandra Pioselli

Galleria Milano is pleased to announce Francesco Pedrini’s one-man show, Nebula. For the occasion, the artist produced a corpus of new works – drawings, photographs, projected images of atmospheric landscapes and acts of contemplation of the sky – addressing a theme rooted in time, man’s gaze and its relationship with the Infinite.

 

“Nebula”, “nebbia” (fog), “nuvola” (cloud) and “nebulosa”: these Italian words define a kind of matter that screens things, travels in a suspended state and – when it has ceased existing – reaches us in the form of light. The life of nebulae is but a second within the existence of the whole universe. Nebulae (Nebulae, 2016-16; 4 drawings and a triptych, graphite, charcoal, colors on Kozo paper) are reproduced from NASA photographs: by using pencils and pencil dust to capture an instant that may have happened millions of years before – the ephemeral life of a substance made of light and gas – the artist performs an act of (impossible) verification, a backward journey into time.

 

For Pedrini, the sky is a landscape to behold. His gaze travels from galaxies, down to the horizon, from celestial space to our terrestrial dimension. The drawings of tornados (Tornado, 2016; 2 drawings, graphite, charcoal, colors on Kozo paper) are based on astronomical photographs, and grasp the sublime grandiosity of these phenomena. Again, they are an attempt to seize the actual time-span of a transient body whose substance is nothing but air, dust, wind.

 

During World War I, before the radar was invented, a few experimental devices had been developed in an attempt to detect the routes of aircrafts. Pedrini rebuilt one of these objects, and documented its functioning in three photographs titled Ascolto (2016), as he tried it out in a foggy landscape. In such weather, ironically, the device looks like a painting, a very simple blank canvas. Removed from its military function, this “painting” bearing no representation becomes the medium of a performance, of a poetic confrontation with the landscape.

 

The tension to the Infinite is again addressed in Laser (2016, 3 slides, single-slide projectors), where three images are taken from a height of over 3,000 meters, near an astronomical observatory on the Chilean Andes. The orange light of a radar, used to simulate the behavior of a star, scans the starry vault at night, towards a point at sidereal distance. In the pictures, this light appears as an abstract mark, again revealing the impossibility of verification.

 

Francesco Pedrini moves from the impossibility of gaze and vision, in order to open up the chance of a deeper kind of knowledge, possibly giving access to the essence of things. Only by listening, we can really see; and if we can listen, we will be able to grasp the invisible.

 

Francesco Pedrini (Bergamo, 1973). Graduated from Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo. Master’s Degree from IUAV in Venice. He had solo exhibitions at Galleria Martano in Turin, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad di Buenos Aires, the Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, and took part to group exhibitions in several galleries and institutions, such as the Biennale di Disegno in Rimini, the Fondzione Buziol in Venice, the Merano Arts Festival, the Tophane Culture Center in Istanbul.

 


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Francesco Pedrini. Nebula Main address: Varese, Italy Varese, Italy

Curated by Alessandra Pioselli

Galleria Milano is pleased to announce Francesco Pedrini’s one-man show, Nebula. For the occasion, the artist produced a corpus of new works – drawings, photographs, projected images of atmospheric landscapes and acts of contemplation of the sky – addressing a theme rooted in time, man’s gaze and its relationship with the Infinite.

 

“Nebula”, “nebbia” (fog), “nuvola” (cloud) and “nebulosa”: these Italian words define a kind of matter that screens things, travels in a suspended state and – when it has ceased existing – reaches us in the form of light. The life of nebulae is but a second within the existence of the whole universe. Nebulae (Nebulae, 2016-16; 4 drawings and a triptych, graphite, charcoal, colors on Kozo paper) are reproduced from NASA photographs: by using pencils and pencil dust to capture an instant that may have happened millions of years before – the ephemeral life of a substance made of light and gas – the artist performs an act of (impossible) verification, a backward journey into time.

 

For Pedrini, the sky is a landscape to behold. His gaze travels from galaxies, down to the horizon, from celestial space to our terrestrial dimension. The drawings of tornados (Tornado, 2016; 2 drawings, graphite, charcoal, colors on Kozo paper) are based on astronomical photographs, and grasp the sublime grandiosity of these phenomena. Again, they are an attempt to seize the actual time-span of a transient body whose substance is nothing but air, dust, wind.

 

During World War I, before the radar was invented, a few experimental devices had been developed in an attempt to detect the routes of aircrafts. Pedrini rebuilt one of these objects, and documented its functioning in three photographs titled Ascolto (2016), as he tried it out in a foggy landscape. In such weather, ironically, the device looks like a painting, a very simple blank canvas. Removed from its military function, this “painting” bearing no representation becomes the medium of a performance, of a poetic confrontation with the landscape.

 

The tension to the Infinite is again addressed in Laser (2016, 3 slides, single-slide projectors), where three images are taken from a height of over 3,000 meters, near an astronomical observatory on the Chilean Andes. The orange light of a radar, used to simulate the behavior of a star, scans the starry vault at night, towards a point at sidereal distance. In the pictures, this light appears as an abstract mark, again revealing the impossibility of verification.

 

Francesco Pedrini moves from the impossibility of gaze and vision, in order to open up the chance of a deeper kind of knowledge, possibly giving access to the essence of things. Only by listening, we can really see; and if we can listen, we will be able to grasp the invisible.

 

Francesco Pedrini (Bergamo, 1973). Graduated from Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo. Master’s Degree from IUAV in Venice. He had solo exhibitions at Galleria Martano in Turin, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad di Buenos Aires, the Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, and took part to group exhibitions in several galleries and institutions, such as the Biennale di Disegno in Rimini, the Fondzione Buziol in Venice, the Merano Arts Festival, the Tophane Culture Center in Istanbul.

 

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