CURA.

GABRIELE SILLI
Del mero essere

text by Ilaria Gianni

Giorgio Galotti, Turin

Oct 9 – Nov 9, 2019 

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Excerpt from press release

Del Mero Essere it could be the title of a poem to reveal an existential landscape. The first idea that Gabriele Silli's new body of work may conceal a philosophical investigation into the origin and the position of the man into the Universe, once we enter the gallery is immediately translated in a question forcing the viewer to wonder in which terms we have to interpret the expression "to be". Without doubts, what stands out in front of the viewer is a cumbersome and indefinable “animal", halfway between a fearsome presence from a fiction and a seductive fossil of an ancestral botanical Era.

Brutal and outspoken, at the same time fascinating and ambiguous, Senza titolo (2019), the environmental sculpture by Gabriele Silli manifests itself as a shameless organic element, intent on revealing itself in its physical appearance rather than narrative nature. Despite the references to a shape that seems to tell us a mythological time Il Mero Essere bring us to another story.

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CREDITS
Courtesy of Giorgio Galotti, Turin
Photo by Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

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