One foot in the world and the other in the stillness

z2o Sara Zanin Gallery is pleased to present One foot in the world and the other in the stillness, the first solo exhibition by Alessandro Roma at the gallery.

Alessandro Roma plays with the notions of perceiving what is undefined: if on the one hand his works are linked to the classic themes of landscape painting tradition, on the other hand they explore their boundaries and shirk formal techniques in favour of an on-going melding between memory and imagination.

 

Nature, Roma's preferred theme, is interpreted as an enchanted place where on-going and unforeseeable metamorphoses take place, generated by the unpredictability of a "free" vision and at the same time by the attempt to fix them, through mastery, in new formal structures.

 

Signs of natural, not fully recognisable shapes leave enough room for viewers to constantly and newly re-interpret the image. 
His works tend to elicit a special kind of catharsis of the eye, by inviting the viewer to plunge into a personal labyrinth of memories, references, and suggestions. Images lead towards a state between slumber and wakfulness we could define as reverie.

Imagination plays a central role in the artist's practice: both at the onset of the work production and in its fruition. These are instants of a fragmented space capable of recomposing itself - rather magically, in a dream-like unit within a resonating balance where the subconscious dimension  emerges as a fundamental value.