Studio Dabbeni presents twenty-eight previously unexhibited works, large and small, at the fourth exhibition on the work of the artist Luciano Bartolini (1948-1994). The core of the exhibition, arranged in the gallery’s main hall, is made up of five works entitled Klang, il suono che spezza, produced in 1983 during the year spent in Berlin, which culminated in a major exhibition at the Nationalgalerie.

The most recurrent sign in these works – almost an evocative logo – is the simandron, an arched iron gong hanging from chains that Bartolini discovered during his stays in the monastery of Vatopediou on Mount Athos. It produces the sound around which the monks’ lives revolve. The crescent-moon shape of the simandron (more informally renamed Klang, sound) has become a metaphor for sounds, rhythms and dances.

In these works, the layers of colour that overlap and thicken the paper medium to the degree of changing its consistency and making it plastic, supple and strong are the mark of long, painstaking work, and the contrast of void and solid, on which the symbolic arabesques are inscribed, becomes a metaphor for the cosmic call.

Opening
wednesday 10 november 2004
18.00