Blog flash007 de Leonora Bisagno

LEONORA BISAGNO

“Da desiderio a desiderio”

A personal exhibition

“Da desiderio a desiderio” (“From desire to desire”) was chosen by Leonora as a title for her exhibition. A title found on the spot, based on extemporary associations: the feminist literature plus the book containing the acts of a conference in 1987, whose cover image, as an image trouvée, takes place inside the project, thanks to the fascinating title, rich in suggestions.

The cover of the book, purposedly reproduced in a blurred image, introduces an athmosphere of expectation and desire (recalling the title) wich is gradually populated by objects trouvées and collected items, gathered according to a memory of feminism and surrealism.

Jacopo Miliani’s work (hosted in the same space as Leonora’s) rejects the identification with the audience, in an attempt to investigate the power and the nature of the representation, deviating from any predefined process. Contrarily, Leonora brings the audience with her, pushing them in a universe which has completely lost its points of reference, as they would have never existed before.

The visitors have to rely on their own intelligence, associations, presently available pieces of information: they’re allowed to exert on Leonora’s art an enormous power. However, they are in her wishing universe, expanding free from borders, of which they participate, without knowing the protocol to be followed to be part of it. This is a cosmic dérèglement, a complete reshuffling of the rules of the world, an act of liberation from the vision of knowledge as a set of norms: space and time lose their conventional meaning.

In this world in never ending transformation, the chance is Leonora’s spouse. Even those who do not believe in chance can see in Leonora’s work an artistic carelessness, a cultivated rhetoric stemming from a sort of no saber, a fortunate afasia, an original forgiveness.

Leonora follows a personal ars combinatoria, she’s not only owned by the chance, but she owns it as well, programming unexpected epiphanies and casual discoveries.

The past, the recollections, the objects trouvées are invented anew: they are inserted in a process which makes them not dead or abstract anymore. What is archived in the past, is brought backdeparting from any logic.

Small things, images, pictures, repêchages from intimate memories are awaken by sudden flashes of light, newly born to a state of ecstasy and excess, in a liberating metamorphosis.

LEONORA BISAGNO – JACOPO MILIANI

Double solo exhibitions

• Luogo: P38, Via del Battistero 38, 55100 Lucca, Italy

• Data: Sabato 13 Febbraio 2010, ore 18.00

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