“Il profumo del tempo” is the first exhibition conceived as a curatorial project by Cecilia Larese and Bianca Pedron, and it presents the works of three artists and one duo: Lorena Bucur (Cremona, 1996), Matteo Rattini (Padua, 2001), Guendalina Urbani (Rome, 1992), and Calori&Maillard (the artistic duo formed in 2009 by Letizia Calori and Violette Maillard).
Through the works on view, the curators analyse the concept of time in today’s society, driven by the sole ontological project of being constantly productive. Yet, time begins to “scent” when it acquires duration, when it receives a narrative tension, when it gains depth. However, the curators suggest that artistic manifestations should be read not as the result of a linear narrative evolution, but rather as deriving from a combination and accumulation of fragmented events.
The glazed ABS sculptures by Guendalina Urbani – imaginary and ambiguous objects – enter into dialogue with the screens and captions of Matteo Rattini, who works at the intersection of the real and the virtual, where images become reality and the concrete dematerializes. The socially and politically engaged practice of Lorena Bucur intertwines with the collaborative approach of Calori&Maillard.
The exhibition “aims to be an invitation to embrace slowness, to pause before the artists’ works and engage with them with deep and total attention, for only such focus prevents the eyes from wandering. Perhaps it is necessary to reclaim suspended time in order to enjoy art in all its forms and once again perceive that scent”.
