Marco Casentini: Le cose che cambiano

Marco Casentini: Le cose che cambiano

Via Fusetti 14 Milan, 20143, Italy Thursday, November 24, 2022–Saturday, January 14, 2023

With new pictorial works made on aluminum and Dibond, the works of Marco Casentini are back on display in Milan in the spaces of the Progettoarte elm gallery. 

you blow my mind by marco casentini

Marco Casentini

You blow my mind, 2022

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Every interaction with the surrounding environment triggers that complicated and fascinating process that leads to the birth of a sensory experience. With the pictorial research proposed in the exhibition Things that change, Marco Casentini translates these sensations into elaborate abstract structures capable of restoring the complexity of emotion.

Compared to previous works, Casentini abandons the usual lexicon of his painting - developed in stratified geometric shapes - to embrace the essence of linearity.

Maintaining his typical palette, expressed for example in the well-known coding of the reality of his daily life, for this new production he resorts to intertwining, superimposing, or simply juxtaposing vertical and horizontal "stripes"; however, every trace painted on the Dibond panels, the composite support identified for this cycle of paintings, cannot be traced back to scientific chromatic relationships, but rather to relationships of necessity, in which necessity is equivalent to approaching colors for aesthetic or "instinctive" reasons , as he himself points out.

Because Casentini's work naturally goes far beyond the simple tonal combination: in fact, it is configured as a reflection on our ability to perceive, to see and to place ourselves in relation to our experience. And we know well how relevant experience is in painting, even more so in Casentini's. But he also deals with the theme of change (in passions, in work, in the way of being) with which we periodically have to deal, sometimes unpredictably.

For those who intend to intercept the message transmitted by the works, the voice of color faintly emerges from the silence of the surface and is sent to immerse themselves in the "self-portrait" of the grammar of the author's emotions. A self-portrait, of course, because "in life you make a single work, with multiple internal changes, often reasoning on the same problem", the artist points out. In the light of these words, it is intriguing to think that Casentini is somehow in tune with the story of the painter narrated by Jorge Luis Borges, that is, the guy who after having dedicated his entire life to painting the beauty of nature, all of a sudden , he realizes that the set of paintings gives life to his face, and, consequently, to the path of his life.