The exhibition Licht im Dunkeln [Light in the Darkness] opens on Friday, 3 October 2025 at 6:00 pm, featuring works by Ennio Tamburi, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, in the ETworks Studio exhibition space, via dei Marsi 41, Rome (San Lorenzo district).
The use of black in the work of the Marche-born artist intensified in the last years of his life, not so much due to a melancholic conception of reality, but rather to an extreme need for a synthesis of signs and forms that seems to elude colour to focus on modules, scores, and contrasts within the painting. The complementary relationship between the grids of the geometric composition and the fluidity of the pictorial material and the slender rice paper supports—elements of a constant grammar in the artist's work—fuels a dual, ambiguous tension in the balance between formal rigor and spatial evanescence, as if attempting to erect solid architectures amidst the liquid and uncertain atmospheres all around.
To this inclination, Tamburi adds a rhythmic, binary rhythm, created by alternating solids and voids, positives and negatives, entrusting the sole colour black with both the certainty of geometry and the vaporous essentiality of the background.
A "light in the darkness" emanates from the interstices of vertical towers, like artificial, almost industrial or metropolitan glows —not in a romantic, emotional sense—a glimmer of horizon, a twilight streak—but rather as an organic and structural component of painting. A light consubstantial with the darkness, internal and adherent to it, capable of fueling a certain idea of movement: growing, ascending, expanding, spanning.
