On the occasion of Giornata del Contemporaneo, saturday october 7th, Alluvion, an exhibition of the works of British artist and intellectual Mat Collishaw, curated by Danilo Eccher, will be open to the public at M77 Gallery, Via Mecenate 77, until October 15th, 2023.

Alluvion represents a new landscape modelled by material deposited by floodwaters, just as digital media floods our daily life and changes the social co-ordinates through which we manage communication, making us dependent on a world increasingly mechanised and controlled by technology, an image we find in most of Collishaw’s work.

Adopting a museum-style approach, the exhibition focuses on the ambiguities characterising the work of Collishaw, who concentrates his poetics on the infinite ways of perceiving images in order to create works capable of riveting viewers’ attention with beauty, only to lead them down the darker corridors of their imagination.
For Collishaw, beauty doesn’t always mean truth and good: on the contrary, it may be implicated in evil.

This is how the artist, a leading exponent of YBA (Young British Artists) famed for his unnerving visual imagination, introduces the spectator to his multi-perceptual, sensory scenario, in which life and death, light and shadow, coexist.
He sets up this meeting, this dialogue between his works and the public, on a narrow and slippery borderline between familiar and shocking, poetic and morbid.

The M77 Gallery exhibition will be showing over 25 of Collishaw’s works in a sort of narrative that has the dimension and feel of museum display. Photographs, paintings and 3D works give us an idea of the most significant production of an artist whose central themes are illusion and desire. They are accessible and immediate, easy for the public to understand, compact and simple at first glance but densely layered within.