Urban Displacement
"A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity.
When for a few brief seconds the silence drown out the noise.
and I can feel rather then think,
and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh.
It's as though it had all just come into existence."
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
Light is stolen time to Alessia Armeni. The artist uses light to carry out a rhythm on the canvas that interprets the concepts of space and time in her own personal style. She creates paintings and uses her brush in a knowing and contemplative manner, just as Chopin articulated "tempo rubato". Much like the composer, she uses her left hand to direct time marked by strict historical references to painting while her right hand expresses her free and personal exploration.
The emotional impact of her "symbolic landscapes" is very strong; mankind is immersed in nature, in the world, in the face of infinity, full of fears and hopes.
Alessia's style is clear-cut, crystalline in its form, throughout light it succeeds in representing "the elusive of reality and its changeability". The solitude of the figures that are depicted is reminiscent of The Wanderer above the Mists by Caspar David Friedrich, also in the way Alessia reveals the strength of mankind's relationship to nature as the expression of the state of mind that takes part in the balance of the world.
Paintings that are created in homage to Rome where both isolated and social dimensions of its garden on the horizon blend with expanding space, as the figures get smaller. Geometrical figures of spec whose elements are historical overlaps of time drawn from antique paintings and the personal past of the artist, in an ambiguous style divided by figure and abstract painting, reminiscent of masters such as Piero della Francesca and Giorgio Morandi. Alessia Armeni conducts a thorough a dialog of space and time used as means to explore, shape and measure. Throughout the rendering, the artist turns the painting over two or three times to find the right angle and perspective, using mirror that multiplies the space, the setting, and is an instrument that allows her to see in different ways, to abstract and emphasize the existing and the imagined reality. The essence and the tension created in a space that is always a physical and mental place. Much like the protagonist in Christopher Isherwood's novel, the observe in front of a painting by Alessia Armeni finds himself thinking:"I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be."
Mariachiara Di Trapani
"A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity.
When for a few brief seconds the silence drown out the noise.
and I can feel rather then think,
and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh.
It's as though it had all just come into existence."
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
Light is stolen time to Alessia Armeni. The artist uses light to carry out a rhythm on the canvas that interprets the concepts of space and time in her own personal style. She creates paintings and uses her brush in a knowing and contemplative manner, just as Chopin articulated "tempo rubato". Much like the composer, she uses her left hand to direct time marked by strict historical references to painting while her right hand expresses her free and personal exploration.
The emotional impact of her "symbolic landscapes" is very strong; mankind is immersed in nature, in the world, in the face of infinity, full of fears and hopes.
Alessia's style is clear-cut, crystalline in its form, throughout light it succeeds in representing "the elusive of reality and its changeability". The solitude of the figures that are depicted is reminiscent of The Wanderer above the Mists by Caspar David Friedrich, also in the way Alessia reveals the strength of mankind's relationship to nature as the expression of the state of mind that takes part in the balance of the world.
Paintings that are created in homage to Rome where both isolated and social dimensions of its garden on the horizon blend with expanding space, as the figures get smaller. Geometrical figures of spec whose elements are historical overlaps of time drawn from antique paintings and the personal past of the artist, in an ambiguous style divided by figure and abstract painting, reminiscent of masters such as Piero della Francesca and Giorgio Morandi. Alessia Armeni conducts a thorough a dialog of space and time used as means to explore, shape and measure. Throughout the rendering, the artist turns the painting over two or three times to find the right angle and perspective, using mirror that multiplies the space, the setting, and is an instrument that allows her to see in different ways, to abstract and emphasize the existing and the imagined reality. The essence and the tension created in a space that is always a physical and mental place. Much like the protagonist in Christopher Isherwood's novel, the observe in front of a painting by Alessia Armeni finds himself thinking:"I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be."
Mariachiara Di Trapani