SERGIO GIANNINI
Sergio Giannini was born in Pistoia in 1954. Alongside his technical training at the school of architecture, Giannini has developed a graphic, pictorial vision that slowly evolves from figures with an expressiveness bordering on the satirical towards a seemingly balanced, afigural use of color.
Not coincidentally, one of his recent solo shows "MOND: Mettere Ordine Nel Disordine”, (Putting Order in Disorder"), was introduced with a quote by W. Benjamin, " Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness". Through his work, the artist wants to convey an awareness of how modernity abounds with information stimuli, creating visual confusion and an inability to distinguish between facts and fake news. Mindful that any balance is precarious, Sergio’s most recent works often start from fragments taken from posters and flyers for cultural events, transferring them to canvas or wooden panels, to then create colorful layers, often on the spur of the moment. Take away, layer, and then remove to re-add... to finish by searching for homogeneous areas and marking them with a sign... closed shapes that restore a unity that would otherwise be lost in a chromatic whole. A profoundly lucid disappointment seems to run through these forms that negate the concept of permanence and structure; that balance the finished works seem to return to us is not the only one possible as dictated by classical compositional rules. It is just one of many among life’s infinite variations. Here, the work acquires a symbolic value along its edges and inside its shapes. emphasizing its outlines, the black mark that wants to remove them from the oppressive, engulfing force of the space. The swarming typographical or figurative fragments that emerge within the forms create multiple spatial planes and different observation points that accentuate the dialectic of positive and negative space. in turn, the contour-generated forms are absorbed by a metamorphic continuum that binds the entire work, but also the sequence of the works themselves. We could say that Giannini's recent paintings are a mirror and a defense of that richness of life that teems in every scrap of reality, claiming the right to exist and forever relentlessly fighting not to be erased by time, the rate of consumption, or especially, the predominance of a background noise that makes us incapable of listening.
[Roberto Agnoletti]