DOVE DORME LA NOTTE

...At night you feel and think differently, the wheezing of the day becomes breath and the gaze that slips into the shadow sees what is invisible in the dazzling light of day. The night, in the words of Borges, suppresses the idle details and reveals the essential. It is perhaps in this that its mystery consists: instead of preventing sight, it makes it more acute.[...]

text by M. Mancini 

I believe that creative activities all aim to build a kind of parallel world, a perennial room of games where everything is possible, everything is wonderful, where you can talk with the night and drive away the darkness. A parallel universe where human rules do not apply and freedom of expression becomes the ideal companion.Of course, in this “room”, many elements come into this world, quite casually: the experience of school, the books read, people met in life, fantasy, dreams [...]

text by R Biavati

 This year, presenting the exhibition of the works of Riccardo Biavati is for us the opportunity to pick up a discussion that we had started many years ago and taken up several times in the course of the years. We inaugurated our Gallery in 1995 with this artist and another two (Enrico Stropparo and Sandro Lorenzini), speaking about JOURNEYS BETWEEN LAND AND SEA and from there we have travelled on a long artistic journey together where the most important stages were in 2009 with THE SUPPER OF A HUNDRED BOWLS and ART IN THE GARDEN, both hosted in the spaces of the Hotel Cernia Isola Botanica in Sant’Andrea. [...]

text by GULLIVER gallery