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An
ample selection of recent works by Massimo Pulini
will be exhibited in the Venetian gallery. In
one of the rooms, large heads painted in enamel
colors are set up, continuing the path between
science and poetry. They are characterized by
the suggestion towards alight chromatic thermo
grapy, capable to unveil and separate, in colored
pools, the cold and hot masses of the bodies.
The main space hosts the exhibition of a new
painting cycle. A series of paintings with full
body figures or half bust, are grouped as memories
books, private images of a cosmology and of
a domestic adventure. An itinerary of affection
where the persons are caught in a moment of
relaxation, crouching on the beds, or sinking
on the sofas, which seem to be rafts in an open
sea. These-domestic castaways are sometimes
in company of animals who maintain the candor
of the coat, in contrast to the upheaval of
colors that assails the persons’ flesh.
Here the chromatic alteration is in relation
to the R.E.M. (Rapid eye Movements) phase in
human sleep, where dreams take place and our
sleepy eyes under the eyelids continue to move
in rapid and mysterious movements which seem
to follow actions felt at a dreamlike level.
This phase is also called “paradox sleep” because
of the images and events developed by cerebral
activity and because of the secret process of
the gaze, which creeps around the movie we are
filming by ourselves, in contrast to the natural
relaxation of all the other muscles.
This exhibition is dedicated to this specific
gaze, looking inside; towards an unconscious
scenery which is sometimes unreachable even
to dreamers, who upon waking up do not remember
the dream. The last research of Pulini is dedicated
to the eyes concealed under a thought, which
is mined and preserved in the mystery of the
common life. Here Pulini has walked out of the
beloved ground of the history of art, from which
he extracted passionate citations, to enter
the field, crushed and molded by the steps of
actual living people.
In the last room, we are introduced for the
first time to a series of experimental works,
bas-relief of pictorial models in sculptured
resin. The stressed chromatic scale of the portraits
painted by Massimo Pulini is transformed into
fantastic geography through a pantograph process;
a rocky landscape, in which chunks of land,
hills and rock in miniature take the place of
the colors. The impression resembles a situation
where we are placed in front of an exhibition
of paintings for the blind.
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