07.05 - 26.06.2010
Andrea Gabutti
Particles and other fragments
What do a deer and a rose have in common? Or a plane and a mountain? In both
cases they are commonly known pictures, simple forms that are instantly
recognizable. This is the iconographic choice of the recent work by
Andrea Gabutti presented at the Galleria Balmelli, in Bellinzona from
7th May to 26th June 2010 (opening Friday, 7th May, 6 - 9 pm).In front of the big paintings and drawings of Gabutti's new work, the spectator is at the first glance involved in the obvious quiteness of the big works in which a fragmentation of the reality is represented. The artist represents the world and its different parts. Dr. in history of art, Véronique Mauron, who inspired the title of the exhibition, writes in the catalogue: "It is not the reality that interests him so much as the image of it". The theme of this exhibition is clearly the representation. Animals, plants, objects and landscapes are extracted from reality, rearranged, transformed and thei new representation is now exposed to the spectator. To study the work of Andrea Gabutti in depth, it is important to perceive the simultaneity of the finished piece along with the whole process of abstraction, as well as the consistency of the real object which allowed the creation.
The artist begins each new work beginning with the mental process of defragementation of the reality into elementary particles, to translate them into brush touches, hard and vibrant, silent and unfinished, to finally reach the rebuilding of a kind of alternative figurative representation.
Once painted, Gabutti's works overlap the original image, fixed in memory, but without claiming to replace or modify it, but as an invitation to reconsider our vision of the reality. Galleria Balmelli
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