Free as a bird
STUDIO PANSINI
GIORGIO CASARI pittura
BRUNO KUHLMANN pittura disegno video
For the third time, Studio Pansini is opening
its doors to mark Rome Art Week.
This year, Giorgio Casari and Bruno Kuhlmann
are presenting works on canvas and paper that draw
inspiration from the world of birds, using them
as vehicles and tools for formal, poetic and thematic exploration.
The title “FREE AS A BIRD” echoes the title of
a particular Beatles song, capable of
evoking various associations around this image:
escape, speed, danger and failure,
but also transcendence, ecstasy and freedom…
Ideally orbiting around these themes, the
two artists bring together two distinct
and deeply personal visual universes, which take shape
in the works on display.
The subjects of Giorgio Casari’s paintings are
crows, swallows and seagulls soaring through
a sky that is blue, azure or ablaze with the colours
of sunset. The broad brushstrokes of the background
create a contrast with the silhouettes of the birds,
which are rendered not as a description, but as a perception
of movement, captured in the intensity
of a single moment, stretching out its wings as if
eager to plunge into further dimensions, as yet
invisible.
Bruno Kuhlmann evokes a story with which
many have grown up: Wile E. Coyote’s
impossible chase of his elusive prey, the Roadrunner
Beep Beep. In the artist’s abstract works,
whether on paper or canvas, this tragicomic tale of
perpetual failure is transformed into a formal
element.
Just as happens when one fails to realise
one’s plans, the cartoon characters
are fragmented and reworked into ornamental lines,
graphic patterns and abstract marks. In
this transition, Kuhlmann shifts his gaze
from the sky to the earth: the bird can only
run, but it is precisely this ability that makes him
free nonetheless, whilst failure remains
the lot of those who, by every means, try in vain
to capture him. Paradoxically, however, even Beep
Beep remains caged by the sadistic amusement
(Schadenfreude) of the television viewer who
relentlessly forces him into his exhausting
role.
STUDIO PANSINI is a furnished flat
that once belonged to the mother
of the artist Bruno Kuhlmann. For this exhibition,
the decision was made to create a display that
contrasts with the traditional presentation of
a painting hung on the wall, by devising
an internal structure of panels with the aim of
opening up new perspectives and viewpoints for the visitor
and fostering a more dynamic dialogue between the works
of the two artists themselves.
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