In-Time

Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea is pleased to announce “In-Time”, the first solo show of work by the young artist Marco Paganini, opening on February 8 in via Stoppani 15/C.

The title of the exhibition, “In-time”, plays with the possibility of being read in two different ways. In-time as “time”, our most precious and invaluable resource. Or, In-time as “intimacy”, a spatial coordinate able to create separation and distance when our private spheres are concealed and protected. Intimacy may also be understood as proximity, as our need for each other, like in a relationship.

In-Time develops around the concept of time and has been conceived as a web of cross-references. It is a patient yet cruel game in which the artist wants us to be involved, an intimate journey whose destination is embodied by the work “Inside”.

The exhibition’s starting point is the representation of a dream in which a bed’s rigid frame, a river stone, a note with a hidden content, a water-filled glass bowl and three goldfishes give shape to the fragile balance of the sculpture named “Benché nessuno degli elementi che compongono l’opera appartenga propriamente alla dimensione marina tutto sembra condurvici” (literally: “Although none of the elements which make up the opera belong properly to the marine dimensions everything seems to lead us there”). Here, the sea is the metaphor of something which goes infinitely beyond us, like the ancestral fear of the unknown, a place generating restless yet magnificent dreams.

The first exhibition room also showcases several drawings in which the artist separates and highlights the indivisibility of every instant of time. An insane act of measuring which, by way of a patient and obsessive repetition, contributes – together with the abovementioned sculpture – to evoke the possibility of the infinite.

Displayed in the adjoining space, the work “Ti vedo” consists of two mirrors, similar in design and size, but not identical. Each frame, symmetrically, encloses the image of the other, giving birth to an exclusive dialogue between the two elements. The mirrors are immersed in an “elsewhere” which manages to distance itself from any spatial and temporal coordinate, a dimension where the enchantment stands out.

“Inside”, is the arrival point. A site-specific installation of sculptures, arranged at the lower floor of the gallery, made up of treasure chests that can be opened and closed and whose contents will be revealed during private appointments with the artist held on fixed days.

As if by alchemy, in “In-Time” glass, cardboard, wood, fishes, sheets of paper, cypresses transform themselves into desires, dreams, secrets, fleeing moments. Fragments not belonging to any particular story, but able to originate potentially innumerable tales.

A universe which leads us toward an intimate place where what truly matters is to envisage an “elsewhere”. In this way, space and time turn out to be an invitation to rediscover ourselves, and then to meet again each other.