Marsiglione Arts Gallery
Presents

YŪREI
Solo exhibition of Fabio Usvardi
Curated by Igor Zanti



From the 3th of May to the 8th of June 2013

Opening: Thursday 2 of May 2013 at 18.30

Opening times: from Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 - 13.00 | 15.00 - 19.30


Marsiglione Arts Gallery
Via Vitani, 31
22100 Como
Tel. +39 328 7521463
info@marsiglioneartsgallery.com
www.marsiglioneartsgallery.com


The Marsiglione Arts Gallery is pleased to present yūrei, the first solo exhibition in Como of the young Milanese artsist Fabio Usvardi, curated by Igor Zanti.

This month of May is full of relevance for the MAG because it falls the 20 years of militant employment in the world of art by its director and founder, Salvatore Marsiglione, and the fourth anniversary of the gallery birth.
In a way it is an important goal that highlights the stamina and the stubbornness to face with determination a period of economic and moral crisis very deep, establishing the aim always beyond the obstructions, always with a view to the future, because it is useful to build the present with truthful life projects.
This important step gives us the occasion to analyze every single step passed in the time and thanks to the whole matured experience, we have today the opportunity to soar to the future betting on a young and emergent artist, Fabio Usvardi, with his first solo exhibition in Como.
In the exhibit there will be about twenty artworks, all portraits, from the white on a black background ones of small and large dimensions, painted with the hands where the influence of the Action Painting and of the dripping is evident, to the last series, the yūrei - which gives the name to the exhibition - painted with the hands and feet, where the balance between the damask Jacquard support and the painting is supported by the performative act and where the colour is shape!
On the margin of the canvas, appears the Japanese ideogram of yūrei, the ghosts; in the traditional Japanese culture these are the dead souls who are unable to leave the world of the living people and reach in peace the afterworld.
The yūrei could infest an object, a place or a person and it could be driven away only after having celebrated the funeral rites or solving the emotional conflict that linked it to the world of living people.
In the Usvardi artworks there are not “ghosts”, but “evanescences”: technically he works on the transparencies, where he creates the light using the dark background for the shadows, where he paints the shadows making shine through the Jacquard fabric with its features velvety.
As Igor Zanti writes in the introductory text of the exhibition:
“But it is not their traditional meaning that interested Fabio, but rather the essence of their transient substance, the oxymoronic sense of simultaneous affirmation and negation of the being that is incidental to their imaginary existence.
Usvardi wants to condense thousand hints and thousand aspirations in this collection of impalpable portraits, showing his restlessness in the painting thought, searching to catch the substance. And moving the speech from formal appearance, he enters in a more hidden theoretical dimension”.