Per avere qualche speranza di essere noi stessi, dobbiamo avere molti luoghi dentro di noi. Questo pensiero di Jean Bertrand Pontalis riportato da Vittorio Lingiardi nel suo bel saggio Mindscapes – Psiche nel paesaggio, insegna in primo luogo che la nostra storia e la nostra psiche sono anche una geografia, ovvero che siamo inseparabili dai nostri luoghi, per amore o per rancore. L’altra è che il nostro luogo non è mai uno solo.
Ci vogliono, appunto, molti luoghi.
Renzo Francabandera's exhibition project that Cue Press hosts in its new headquarters in Bologna, was born from a research by the artist which originated over a year ago from the accidental discovery, in the streets of the city, of a small collection of postcards and some family photos, probably destined for waste, of which two different families had decided to get rid of.
A move, a change of city. We will never know, but those places, artificial, imagine yourself, totally detached from the artist's life path but casually entered it, they have become an engine for personal research, made of new and free signs, more and more broken up and fragmented, until they become imagined places of lost memories, seen perhaps from above, whose distance transforms them into new panoramas, signs with an abstract effect.
We live in the landscape, his words are endless.
In a short time those unknown environments have become an imagined landscape, formal at first, and then, in an almost liberating passage, abstract signs, psychic investigation of forms, shreds of memory and color.
And within this horizon, panorama, space, soil, the territory is multiplied by stories of which illegible traces sometimes remain, that memory erases, or which must be discarded to make room for the new.
Being in the world, recognizing the existence of others therefore means recognizing the landscape first and foremost, to know that it is not a simple backdrop, of the fifth that delimits the space of human action.
From the more defined forms of the section of the exhibition dedicated to Francabandera's interventions on postcards, creative core that dates back to 2021, we move on to an increasingly free elaboration of signs and traces evidenced by the most recent works, where the task of reconstructing the landscape passes to the observer, in whose gaze the artistic work is always completed, to give shape and image to something that is already in its inner space.
At the same time this gaze, swinging between corrupted shreds of past memories as they move towards an informal sign system becomes a discovery, an invention and a discovery.
Francabandera's intention with Mindscapes and Postcards is therefore to allow everyone to recognize and recognize themselves in those signs, looking for a familiar place, a natural trace, the veins of a leaf, the depth of a memory.
To have any hope of being ourselves, we must have many places within us. This thought of Jean Bertrand Pontalis reported by Vittorio Lingiardi in his beautiful essay Mindscapes – Psiche nel paesaggio, teaches first of all that our history and our psyche are also a geography: we are inseparable from our places, out of love or resentment.
Furthermore it explains that our place is never just one We must have many places inside.
Renzo Francabandera’s exhibition project that Cue Press hosts in its new headquarters in Bologna, stems from a research that originated over a year ago from the accidental discovery, in the streets of the city, of a small collection of postcards and some photos, probably destined for waste, of which two different families had decided to discard.
A move, a change of city. We will never know, but those places, artificial, imagined, totally detached from the artist’s life path but he met by chance, have become the engine for a personal search, made up of new and free signs, increasingly broken up and fragmented, to the point of becoming imaginary places of the lost memories, perhaps seen from above, whose distance transforms them into new places, signs with an abstract effect.
In a short time those unknown environments have become an imagined landscape, at first formal, and then, in an almost liberating passage, abstract signs, psychic investigation of forms, shreds of memory and color.
We live in the landscape, its words are endless.
And within this horizon, landscape, space, soil, territory, stories multiply: illegible traces remain at times, which memory erases, or which must be discarded to make room for the new ones.
Being in the world, recognizing the existence of others means therefore recognizing the landscape in the first place, knowing that it is not a simple backdrop, the backdrop that delimits the space of human action.
From the more defined forms of the section of the exhibition dedicated to Francabandera’s interventions on postcards, a creative nucleus that dates back to 2021, we move on to an increasingly free elaboration of signs and traces witnessed by the most recent works, where the task of reconstructing the landscape passes to the observer, in whose gaze the artistic work is always completed, to give shape and image to something that is already in his inner space.
At the same time, this gaze, which oscillates between corrupted shreds of past memories in their passage towards an informal system of signs, becomes a discovery, an invention and a finding.
Francabandera’s intention with Mindscapes and Postcards is therefore to allow everyone to recognize themselves in those signs, looking for a familiar place, a natural trace, the veins of a leaf, the depth of a memory.
