In the dialogue between art and architecture, between imagination and matter, the new solo exhibition of Francesco Campese opens. Campese is a Campanian artist who has been exploring the metaphysical dimension of space and form for years.
Hosted within the spaces of Studio mirror. on the occasion of Art Week Rome and curated by Matteo Chincarini, the exhibition is set in a context where architectural design and artistic thought reflect, contaminate, and amplify each other.
Campese's works unveil suspended landscapes, poised between dream and memory, where emptiness becomes presence, and the absence of humanity invites viewers to cross inner thresholds. His dreamlike, silent, and unreal architectures seem to originate from another time—both ancient and futuristic—and are set in scenarios reminiscent of both theatrical backdrops and the ruins of forgotten civilizations.
In these pictorial universes, form becomes suspension: it does not rest, it floats. Color is decomposed into light glazes, providing a misty, almost divine luminosity that creates atmospheres charged with anticipation and mystery. Light is not a mere optical effect but a dramaturgical substance: it engraves, reveals, animates. Thus, the surrounding landscape is not just a backdrop but a living body, a silent witness to an interrupted narrative.
Campese's painting, deeply aware of the lessons from Masters of the past, ventures beyond the representation of reality to investigate archetypal forms: monoliths, portals, cyclopean structures that evoke sacred places and thresholds to more intimate, elevated dimensions. It is a search for the "divine," as the artist himself states, taking shape through timeless, never-completed constructions that exist on the border between earth and sky, between idea and matter.
Within the mirror. space, these works find not just a frame but a conceptual counterpart. The rational surfaces, formal cleanliness, and design sensitivity of the Studio allow Campese's work to establish a profound relationship with architecture, highlighting the common tension between structure and vision, between project and dream.
The architectural void of the Studio embraces the imagined void of his canvases, generating a perceptual and sensory exchange between constructed reality and painted reality.
"Geometries of Elsewhere" is, therefore, an invitation to slow down the gaze, to be drawn into these geometries of elsewhere—silent worlds that, despite their apparent immobility, speak of inner movement.
It is an exhibition that reflects on our way of inhabiting space and how art can be not just a representation but a visionary project of the possible.
A painting that does not settle for being looked at: it demands to be traversed.
Like an imaginary building.
Like a dream taking form.
FRANCESCO CAMPESE “Geometrie dell’altrove”
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From the 20th until 25th of October
Ingresso gratuito tutti i giorni dalle 10.30 alle 19.00
