Into the Night
Posted on March 28 2024
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INTO THE NIGHT │ March 8 - April 11, 2024
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Text by Silvia Colombo, Antonio Muratore
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The collection of works displayed at Millepiani in Rome from 8th March to 11th April 2024 tell of ambiences and experiences lived during nighttime. We are immersed into the night where the deepest self manifests itself in a relationship with darkness and silence. Empty contexts where time leaves space for contemplation of places where the diurnal rhythm is marked by the productive and consumerist frenzy of human beings. The night is also told by those who offer evidence of social contexts - places, people and events - linked to nightlife and the fascination it evokes.
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Secret Nights; The Fisher's Home, Nocturne, 2013
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Anita Renaud, Empty Excitement; Endless Motion, 2022
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The night is that dark dimension that usually takes shape in contrast to its opposite: the day, the light, the life, and the liveliness that fills public and private spaces. In this collective exhibition, however, artists compose a different narrative. Through rooms where photographic, video, and digital works succeed each other, stories intertwine, capable of returning to the night its own identity, one that knows no thematic or temporal limits. On this occasion, in fact, the nocturnal dimension expands, overturning the perspective with which we are accustomed to seeing and exploring it.
The night is thus fully experienced in all its forms. It is lived from within, from a subjective point of view, when artists present works that rely on their "internal" point of view. Engulfed by darkness, they venture into the nocturnal streets, illuminated by neon lights or amusement park lights..
The night is thus fully experienced in all its forms. It is lived from within, from a subjective point of view, when artists present works that rely on their "internal" point of view. Engulfed by darkness, they venture into the nocturnal streets, illuminated by neon lights or amusement park lights..
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Angelica Verdan, Insomnia, 2023
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At this point, we are overwhelmed by the literary and cinematic imagery of travel, from Jack Kerouac's United States to the Asia depicted by, among others, Sofia Coppola and Wim Wenders.
Furthermore, artists wander through deserted cities, implementing a mechanism of reclaiming spaces that, otherwise, in that other (daytime) dimension, we would be forced to share with a too-present, sometimes cumbersome collective. And it is here that, perhaps, we might think of the famous scene from "La Dolce Vita," where Rita Hayworth throws herself into an empty Trevi Fountain. At night, precisely.
Fullness gives way to emptiness, noise to silence, and the night becomes the undisputed protagonist of a free, open story without an ending.
Furthermore, artists wander through deserted cities, implementing a mechanism of reclaiming spaces that, otherwise, in that other (daytime) dimension, we would be forced to share with a too-present, sometimes cumbersome collective. And it is here that, perhaps, we might think of the famous scene from "La Dolce Vita," where Rita Hayworth throws herself into an empty Trevi Fountain. At night, precisely.
Fullness gives way to emptiness, noise to silence, and the night becomes the undisputed protagonist of a free, open story without an ending.
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Lauren J. Whitley, Aurora, 2023
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A completely different perspective is taken by works that show a more scientific and subjective approach. From the heart of the night, we move outward, ever farther, to a remote perspective, in some cases even celestial. Here, artists show us photographic and video images related to anatomy, physiology, and even astronomy. What does our mind look like when dreaming? Or when suffering from insomnia? How does Earth appear in the transition from night to day? These are all questions to which we can find answers - at least in part - in the halls of Spazio Millepiani.
And we feel small, looking at the world from the outside.
And we feel small, looking at the world from the outside.
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Fred Brashear Jr, Techno Colored Nightmares and Bubble Gum Dreams; Strong, Resilient, 2023
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Chang-Ching Su, In the Limelight; 10:47PM, August 23, 2023, Daqiu Island, 2023
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Francesco Aglieri Rinella, Luna Nascente, 2022
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Dragan Saric, Cross; Window, 2021
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Svetlana Malakhova, Midnight Artistry; Night Veil, 2023
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INTO THE NIGHT
March 8 - April 11, 2024
Millepiani - Via N. Odero,13, Rome - IT
linfo@millepiani.eu
+39 06.888.17.620
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