The 2017 autumn season of Visionarea Art Space's 2017 season begins with the first Roman exhibition by Belgian artist Noé Sendas, born in 1972. This is the third exhibition of a cycle of six, curated by Claudio Composti, realized in collaboration with mc2gallery in Milan, of which he is artistic director and co-founder with Vincenzo Maccarone.
The exhibition space, located on the first floor of the Conciliation Auditorium, is transformed into a gallery of vintage photographs and old postcards left by the artist. Sendas's past is nourished in his works, inspired by the visual arts, literature of the past, with Dadaist spirit or by Fellini's cinema or Beckett's absurd theater, making the impossible credible and, elegantly and refinedly, absolutely contemporary. As in "Waiting for Godot", Sendas plays with Time. It poses itself and places us, thus, in a suspended portion of time. In that empty space that is created between the memory of an event and the event itself, reconstructed by fallacious and manipulative memory in the reconstruction of a past that is there, but different from how we lived it.
Just as memory leaves room for the re-construction of memory, so Sendas fills that space with his imagination, recreating his History. The research and choice of which images of the past to re-use and transform, are in fact the creative act of Sendas as an artist-demiurgist of a Past that revives, even if it has changed. Thus, in front of Sendas's works, we are poised between a narrative tension, erotic aesthetic and a deep vibration that touches us in the Unconscious, the dark and deep zone that escapes the control of consciousness. Hiding a discomfort behind an apparent light rice, a fracture behind a fragmented form that touches us inside. The unconscious reveals the constitutive irrationality and the being fragmented in various parts of each individual.
Just as fragmented are the women of Sendas, with whom we can only feel empathy.
Noé Sendas is a Belgian artist, born in' 72, who lives and works between Madrid, Berlin and Lisbon. He studied at the Chicago Art School, USA; at the Royal College of Arts in London, Arco and L' Atelier Livre, Lisbon. Sendas expresses himself through photography and video but his work is rooted in drawing, a means of making his thought visible. The artist is inspired by the cinema of Fellini and Godard, visual art, literature and music, sources from which he collects images from the' 20s to the' 50s that he reworked, giving it a meaning other than the pre-existing one. The re-use thus becomes the key to research and creation that distinguishes it, characterized by great elegance and a contemporary style that plays with the manipulation of images from different eras.
