America Dejavu cured by Roberta Gubitosi
Inauguration of the exhibition: saturday 13th January, h 5.30pm
The works will be exhibited in the wine hall from the 13th of January to the 10 March 2024
Free Visit
The exclusive Wine Creative Lab 47Anno Domini is hosting the exhibition America dejavu, a solo show by Treviso-based artist Lorenzo Speranzin.
Lorenzo Speranzin has always combined his work as an architect with his passion for art in its different expressions, moving from traditional techniques to the experimentation of the more recent production. The exhibition presents works created from 2016 to 2023, in which the artist develops a research related to the great theme of the “American myth,” the race toward a new world that at a distance of years has marked the collective imagination.
The path develops in the succession of images, which like fragments of memories highlight in light icons and symbols covered by that nostalgic aura of a distant “Middle Ages.” In works such as Your land, Native, NY Street, El Dorado, the themes range from origins related to the search for new frontiers, the Native question, the development of the metropolis to the gold rush, the myth of the dollar and the American dream of freedom in the 1960s. It does not missing references to icons of the era, such as Hot road cars or the famous New York, with clear references to the metropolitan streets and skyscrapers of the endless city. Each image is evoked on the different media through a modus operandi that, starting from the singular concept of “easy and original repeatability of the work,” involves the alternation of the artist’s direct intervention with digital photographic processing.
Small-format works of art accompanies large panels in which the artistic process appears as a work in progress. The original, a drawing made with mixed media on scenographic paper, represents the first creation of the image that is subsequently reproduced, reworked and enlarged, ready for further interventions with decollage, pigments, acrylics, glazes, pastels, chalks and fixative. The result is a blurred vision of a New Age living in memory clouded by time and historical distance, whose icons now appear to be shipwrecked in the overt and hidden of American society. Thus in America Dejavu, the Statue of Liberty with its classical image of European matrix, undressed, falls with the flag on the metropolis. Far from polemical intentions, Lorenzo Speranzin’s works open up new reflections on the historical American symbols that now, having lost their vivid colors, are part of a “Medieval nostalgic”.
