oday images envelop us, we immerse ourselves completely in them and we are captured by them. The frame disappears and the image becomes an immersive space in which the medium vanishes. The door that separates the real world and the iconic world is now open. Time and space no longer appear defined to us. The first is dispersed in its maximization becoming only the present moment, the second is no longer circumscribable, containable, controllable but becomes a plurivocal element.
Therefore, renewed existential demands emerge and demand answers that the usual methods of approach cannot offer.
Ruggero Facchin, through his art, investigates these aspects of our contemporaneity in depth, showing new paths of harmonization.
There are four series on display, created between 2017 and 2023. They dialogue with each other, bringing with them the same paradigm, but expressed in different ways and thus promoting a diversified and flexible approach to reality.
In the Sonno Lucido series Facchin describes, on the canvases, levitating bodies immersed in an alienating dimension. They are sentinels who watch over our mysteries, ambassadors of a new vision, seers who predict our revolution. They rest on the limen between rational and irrational dimensions, between sleep and waking, life and death, where our unconscious plays, the dreamlike glow juggles, a still untamed expressive virtuality, which speaks to us of Pan, of our instinct, which suggests enigmas whose solution can give life to new metamorphoses and constitute the path towards that lost spontaneity for which human beings are starting to be absolutely hungry.
In his style the artist shows his debt to tonal painting linked to his native land but also emphasizes the drawing dimension, daughter of the world of the Bandes dessinées that he loved so much. From it, comic artists such as Milo Manara, Hugo Pratt Moebius came to his attention. Openly disregarding the attitude of distance,
typically adopted by official culture in relation to comics, he is inspired by this art form, sublimating its complexity in his own work.
In the Teste series the artist, reinterpreting in a contemporary key the collection of portraits of illustrious men by the humanist Paolo Giovio, accompanies us in the exploration of the identity of well-known figures from the world of literature, music and philosophy, who have profoundly influenced, but also by fictional characters that instinctively shake him. He scrutinizes the subject in depth and, through the expressive act, brings out its uniqueness and unrepeatability. Also in this case the technique is mixed, weighted according to the subject represented. The look is not defined
alluding to inner eyes capable of unmasking. Even these men
they become messengers, soothsayers, sentinels. They vibrate in dissonance, ....
F. VIOLA