FERDINANDO FARINA

Artericambi in-light

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OPENING:  Saturday, 13 December 2003 – H 5.30

15 December 2003 – 13 February 2017

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Artericambi is pleased to announce the inauguration of Fernando Farina’s exhibition entitled Artericambi in-light on December 13th at 5.30 pm.

Inside the gallery, the artist’s light installations transform the space they inhabit, creating a perceptual short-circuit, an impasse in the visitor. Some are made by intervening directly on virgin photographic media subsequently projected and others with the use of pure light sources, and appear – they can be seen – only when they are turned on. The concept of dematerialization of the work and the use of light as a medium, the supporting structure of the entire work, reflect the ephemeral and precarious sense of art.

A first installation encountered along the way, entitled “materic shadow”, is a projection of which the materiality is only apparent. The visitor, through his presence, can intervene and transform the work. A second, broken shadow, is set up inside a room. This breaks down, by cutting it in two, the light material of the person: the visitor’s shadow.

Small-format works created with experimental technologies are also presented for the first time: naked light and sketch light. The naked lights are based on the concept of light that becomes subtle matter, to be modeled according to the view of the viewer, and the sketch lights on the sign that becomes light. Impalpable and evanescent images, in which the absence of matter guides the viewer to a sensitive and emotional communication, outside the box of a purely cerebral reading.

Ferdinando Farina’s work stimulates reflection on the ability inherent in art to transform reality by “playing” and on the creation of places as works that break and burst into real space, works that the public passes through and with which they are no longer invited to interact only with the look.

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Ferdinando Farina, Sketch Light, 2003