On Saturday 8 October, as part of the Eighteenth Day of the Contemporary organized by AMACI, the Edarcom Europa gallery inaugurates the exhibition "Reflected mirror", a solo show by Mauro Molle curated by Francesco Ciaffi and Alice Crisponi.

Mauro Molle, appreciated artist of the Roman scene, makes his studies of artistic anatomy his own to subvert the notoriously "classic" concept of figurative. Starting from the first decade of the 2000s, Molle's artistic creation focuses on the study of the human figure, analyzed, delineated and then broken down. His Deconstructions (2012/15), in fact, focus on the desire to give shape to the existential condition of modern man. It would seem, however, that amorphism is the only garment that most represents this condition and, for Molle, man becomes disjointed limbs, fragments of flesh and bones, as if to trace a painful condition in which the vanity of beings, vices and weaknesses undermine the integrity of values, virtues and free will. Molle's man is a man literally in pieces, a lost man, whose limbs seem to swirl, convulsed and obsessed, in search of a foothold that the white background of the canvas does not seem to be able to provide.

Everything seems so hopelessly lost. Unless you give in to the idea of ​​a radical transformation. The artist's subsequent pictorial cycle, Kaleidozoo (2016), is a drastic metamorphosis, apparently retrograde, resolute and decisive. Of human features, not even the shadow: animal figures stand out against kaleidoscopic backgrounds and ornamental decorations. Could this archetypal reconnection with nature be the epiphanic escape route for modern man?

The artist's last pictorial cycle reveals a different ending. His Little stories (2018) tell of an inauspicious destiny for contemporary man, unable to return to his origins and now anesthetized by an over-stimulating contemporary society, which makes him so bestial that he is no longer able to find harmony with the natural world. And the figure becomes uncanny: half animal half human, the man from Molle is a frighteningly familiar hybrid Kafkaesque. These mythological beasts no longer fear the vacuous horror of the Deconstructions; rather, they prefer to fill it with futility, objects and devices of our times capable of overcoming that dangerous and empty silence.

It is the chaos of our times, and we recognize ourselves in it, typified by our vices, uses and consumption. The lively and gaudy palette of the artist's works helps to lighten the intentions and the denunciation becomes ironic mockery of the most grotesque and bizarre caricatures of contemporary man, leading us to reflect with a smile.

The exhibition will be open to visitors with free admission.