Marco Angelini | Yiannis Galanopoulos
“IMPRINTS”
October 10 – October 25
Opening October 10, 2025, 7:00 PM | Borghini Arte Contemporanea | Rome
On Friday, October 10, at 7:00 PM, the Borghini Arte Contemporanea gallery opens “Impronte” by Marco Angelini and Yiannis Galanopoulos.
Two-dimensional works narrate the persistence of a gesture, of a light that passes through time, of an identity that is inscribed in the materiality of the world. Representations of the cosmos communicate contemporary ways of representing transience and migration in space, as an escape from planet Earth. “IMPRINTS” is what remains, what is perceived but not always seen; through additive processes and abstractions, the surface is considered a pluralistic field, capable of containing traces, residues, and layered impressions. These works invite us to abandon ourselves, to question what they evoke, renouncing the need for explanations.
Marco Angelini explores diverse research themes: nature and technology, time and memory, interreligious dialogue and the dimension of the "sacred," art and science, energy and sustainability. In this sense, luminous imprints, like those left by the Big Bang in the universe, are evidence of a passage, of an event that, though consummated, does not cease to exist. He captures these traces, transforming them into images that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, between sign and dissolution. Light, in particular, becomes a pivotal element in this research: it imprints, shapes, erases, creates. The abstract form perfectly interprets his fluid and ever-changing poetics, which suggests the existence of multiple realities. Curator Maria Laura Perilli says of him: "Angelini, following Fontana, is seeking a new and personal conception of artistic space and attempts to achieve a visual and systematic balance of forms with his works"; Marco Angelini states: "the work of art must act as a mirror for the soul, creating that projection mechanism that allows what is within to be freed".
In his extensive photographic work, Yiannis Galanopoulos examines the relationship between imagined, geographical, and virtual places, the connections between place and body, objectivity and materiality, as well as artists' interactions with media, viewers, and society. For him, art represents a highly creative and endless mental game, in which novelties are developed according to flexible rules and objectives; he views artistic creation as an applied expression of self-realization and freedom of leisure. His work ranges from imaginary topographies to represent spaces and narratives, critiques of the socio-political authority of health visualization, and digital reimaginings of his hometown, Patras. Creative Director & Curator of Xposure International Photography Festival Simon Newton says of him: "His images are shifting territories, where body, memory, and landscape merge into fluid visual narratives, leaving traces open to time and interpretation."
