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Emiliano Ponzi – In principio era la fine – Milan

Milan, 21 September – 4 November 2023

Emiliano Ponzi

In principio era la fine

21 September – 4 November 2023

Milan

Corso Venezia 29, 20121 Milan, MI

Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 am -1:00 pm / 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Saturday 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

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In the wake of the success of the Spring preview in its Pietrasanta gallery, Marcorossi artecontemporanea reopens the exhibition season after the summer break with a novelty: the first exhibition of the paintings of prominent contemporary Italian illustrator Emiliano Ponzi. 

Emiliano Ponzi is known for his ironic yet poetic conceptual style, easily recognisable for its surreal solid colours contained within elegant invisible lines. He recently felt the need for a change of key, transforming his illustrations, which he normally creates in digital form, into large-scale paintings. This change of technique has considerably altered his work, not only in terms of size but conceptually, as creating unique works and using a brush has caused him to question his way of working and encouraged him to renew it. 

From work developed sitting at a computer to standing up painting; from the range of action of drawing, limited to the extension of the hand, Emiliano’s work now goes beyond the borders of the screen onto big canvases. Visions, glimpses of everyday life, American landscapes, the studies of famous intellectuals and cuts of light that look like true states of mind: material interiors that are authentic, imperfect, and for this reason special, like life itself.

Curator Maria Vittoria Baravelli writes: “After all, there have always been incursions, in the history of art as in the history of the world. Between art and poetry, between literature and photography, between sculpture, painting and new media. The artists of the 60’s opened up to the new digital medium of video art as the last frontier in the hybrid media art of the 20th century. Furthermore, I like to think that all artists were contemporary, in their own time. So that, at the turn of the 17th century, Caravaggio was sure to use the best-performing brushes and paints, the most modern equipment available on the market at the time. An idea of progress which, in the case of Emiliano Ponzi, means starting all over from scratch in order to move forward. Starting again from the beginning, at what used to be the end.”

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