Luca Scarabelli, NON SI TRATTENEVA MAI ABBASTANZA A LUNGO DA POTER CONTARE GLI ALBERI NEL BOSCO

Room 9
Invited by Giancarlo Norese

There are the lights of the stars and the darkness surrounding them. The forest cannot be seen, it is not there.The focus is on the ability to project oneself outside oneself to take in a new point of view. The environment in which the work was carried out is unusual, due to its conformation and the references to its recent past. The vision was to construct a story by considering this non-neutral space as a nomadic image, in which the game of representing reality is shifted to the mental plane, in a dialectic that I liked to think of as grazing, with a slow and subdued approach to meaning. I combined different languages and told of gravity, of falling, of attraction, of breathing, but also of a glance from nature to man and vice versa. I have chosen to use symbolic forms, from the archetype of the circle to the black and white painting representing a screen, ready to receive images from a possible outpost in space, which bounces them back here, to construct a story made up of contradictions and codes to be deciphered. A frame that has no precise direction; the choice of how to present it can vary and does not condition it, it can also be turned upside down without affecting its substance. Its centre is empty but full of space, an absence awaiting the events of the imagination. It is also a space for reflection and recollection, an area where the gaze can rest. There is a need to take aim at capturing and building things, a need for waiting and silence to be precise. Just there on the outer edge of the construction, you have to stand there, statuesque, concentrated, even if unstable. Perhaps the thought alone is already a work.

Luca Scarabelli was born in Tradate (VA) in 1965. He lives and works between Como and Varese.