Lieber Sigmund,… a solo exhibition by Piergiorgio Baroldi

Lieber Sigmund,… a solo exhibition by Piergiorgio Baroldi entirely dedicated to Sigmund Freud and his life. Piergiorgio Baroldi includes a dualism in the philosophical and technical construction of his works that harmonises and develops the teaching of Venetian artistic culture with a conception of space and of the figure constructed in a Classical, almost Renaissance manner. He depicts the features of modern figures, mysterious, penetrating gazes, the movements of a kind of new hero that divides the space, the golden backgrounds and colourful alveoli as if the figure were the go-between for actual space and the imaginary space of the portrait. There is therefore a sort of non-conformism in Baroldi’s works, as if the subconscious – in order to be represented – needed the past that becomes history and elements of the present to fix itself and become a narration for those to come. Thus the exhibition “Lieber Sigmund, …” completes the Paul Delvaux and Max Ernst’s philosophical and aesthetic message.
Baroldi offers a subtle interplay of presence and essence which, while reproducing two different aspects of the same subject, masterfully represent and contrast the material with being and invite us to continue along life’s magical road again and again with increased joy. (Comment by Prof. Alberto d’Atanasio).
The exhibition is part of Détournement Venise 2009 – a collateral event of the 53rd Venice International Art Biennale.