Artrust reopens the gallery doors in via Pedemonte di Sopra 1 in Melano (CH) starting this October 6, with a new exhibition entitled "20+20 = Quarantine. Our artists in the pandemic year".

On show, forty works by four artists who are part of the Artrust squad: Andrea Ravo Mattoni, Aymone Poletti and Raul, who have exhibited in the Melano gallery in group and solo shows and participated in numerous national and international fairs, together with the arrival of Sirinat Kasikam, who in addition to being an emerging young artist has also been an integral part of the Artrust team for over four years. The exhibition is the first Artrust exhibition open to the public after the halt caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

"This is a new beginning for us, in many ways," says Patrizia Cattaneo Moresi, Director of Artrust. "We are thrilled to be able to start again and it is no coincidence that we have chosen to do so with the artists we have worked with in the past. It is a restart that, as the title of the exhibition suggests, does not want to forget everything that has happened and the difficult times we have been through and that partly we are still in the middle of. In fact, it positions our artists at the heart of the artistic and curatorial discourse, exploring how they dealt with this exceptional situation by making art, the answers their art gave them so as to communicate it, understand it and why not, exorcise it".

The works on display, in fact, were mostly created by the four artists during the months of forced quarantine and lockdown. From the great classics spray-painted by Ravo, to the elegant engravings by Aymone Poletti, from Raul's instinctive symbols to Sirinat Kasikam's meditative compositions, we can see in the works of these artists the signs of the sudden and obliged change that 2020 has forced us all to reckon with.