Loris Cecchini

Hyperion Arte Contemporanea
Through April 20

Loris Cecchini created for the gallery space an installation made of photographs and objects scattered all around. The images in the cycle “No Casting” are constructed by the layering of different elements: pictures, objects, and large transparent coverings that seem to wrap and confine reality making it impossible to distinguish between the immediate perception and a virtual plane. The objects in the cycle “Stage Evidences”, making up the central part of the installation and placed everywhere in the gallery, question the function and the role of the object itself, showing how an alternative use for things is always possible. Cecchini maintains that “the action and the habit of seeing again in a continuous re-assembly of components, in the cutting-and-pasting of a multitude of frames, are the only alternative to the restless vanishing of the world and to the absurdity of human activities”. This statement highlights the fact that the collection of objects can be the starting point for a different construction of reality based on the ambiguity of relationships and on the inability to reach a final definition. In one of the exhibition halls computers with empty screens are arranged randomly, in a tangle of cables and disconnected wires, making the equipment useless. Somewhere else a tripod with a camera lies on the ground, a storm door opens askew in space, a park bench, reduced to a flat undulating surface, welcomes the viewer with a disconcerting effect. Even the material used, pearl gray rubber simulating steel, suggests the idea of temporary nature, which never reaches the status of stable balance.




Tiziana Conti
Translation by Bruna Pegoraroi Brylawski