Exhibitions, Italy, Roma, 11 April 2024
The collages with Bielli's boxers began in 2017, always in the creative relationship with Enzo Mazzarella. The images chosen by the artist are part of a repertoire of "anciens boxeurs", photographed between the end of the 19th century and the mid-20th century. They are to some extent "archaeological" images: the interventions with color inserts transform them into affected scenes, in which the circle, traced on the image, refers to Strazza's ancient lessons.
In the AOC F58 gallery, Bielli exhibits fifty works, collages that assemble ancient photographs, engravings, drawings and fabric, with extreme expressive freedom. The camouflage that Pancotto spoke about in 2005 has become even more refined and careful (as per the depth suggested in the title). The artist overturns the meaning of vintage images, lightly juxtaposing shapes and materials; thus makes the struggle between men and blood a theater of gestures and colours, subverting and demystifying any message of violence. In one of the collages the artist quotes himself, with the insert of that work Ring, from which the subsequent thematic evolution was born.
On the occasion of the vernissage, on 11 April, Bielli will give life to a performance in the footsteps of his artist-character with his works. He will place on the back wall of the gallery seven silhouettes (with which he was previously covered), which ideally represent the various human ethnic types. These hanging shapes will be soundly struck by thirteen medals. Finally the Apulian artist will slip off and throw the crown of victory from his head. Bielli intends to subvert the anxiety for success that characterizes our contemporary actions, inviting the visitor to peace and kindness, to be boxers with velvet gloves.
taken from the critical text by Andrea Iezzi
In the AOC F58 gallery, Bielli exhibits fifty works, collages that assemble ancient photographs, engravings, drawings and fabric, with extreme expressive freedom. The camouflage that Pancotto spoke about in 2005 has become even more refined and careful (as per the depth suggested in the title). The artist overturns the meaning of vintage images, lightly juxtaposing shapes and materials; thus makes the struggle between men and blood a theater of gestures and colours, subverting and demystifying any message of violence. In one of the collages the artist quotes himself, with the insert of that work Ring, from which the subsequent thematic evolution was born.
On the occasion of the vernissage, on 11 April, Bielli will give life to a performance in the footsteps of his artist-character with his works. He will place on the back wall of the gallery seven silhouettes (with which he was previously covered), which ideally represent the various human ethnic types. These hanging shapes will be soundly struck by thirteen medals. Finally the Apulian artist will slip off and throw the crown of victory from his head. Bielli intends to subvert the anxiety for success that characterizes our contemporary actions, inviting the visitor to peace and kindness, to be boxers with velvet gloves.
taken from the critical text by Andrea Iezzi
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