Danilo Bucchi – Paesaggio Sospettato
Tuesday 19th of February 2019, at 7.00 pm, opens the fifth edition of Skin Taste, a project curated by Adriana Rispoli which since 2013 has given a new face to the over 250 square meters facade of Porto Fluviale in Rome. Each year an artist is invited to create a large site-specific work in poster paper, involving the public in transit in front of the building, with an artistic and not commercial message.
Skin Taste goal is the redevelopment of a metropolitan area, that wants to become a new incubator of creativity, with the specific mission of generating a synergy between worlds that are not so distant, such as art, food and wine.
Currently a restaurant but also a lounge and a meeting place, Porto Fluviale occupies the spaces of a shed of the fifties, used over the years as a factory, warehouse and storage area, located between Trastevere, Piramide and Testaccio. An area where an intense phenomenon of urban regeneration took place in the last decade.
After Mariangela Levita, Flavio Favelli, Giuseppe Stampone, Igor Grubic | Raffaela Mariniello, this year the interpretation of the “skin” of the former factory has been entrusted to the Roman artist Danilo Bucchi, known for the skill of his large urban interventions, who created the site-specific work SuspectedLandscape.
With an abstract pictorial sign at first glance but full of silent narrations, Bucchi in Suspected Landscapeintroduces us into an “another” dimension, in which a barely mentioned figure speaks directly to the unconscious of the spectator. As in a surrealist screen play, the six panels – independent and loose from a spatio-temporal reading – seem to restore an intimate flow of consciousness. In an alternation of plans, iconic hominids of the artist’s language, similar to the twentieth century tradition of psychic automatism, they inhabit a “landscape” interspersed with violent touches of red and punctuated by references to domestic life. Apparently playful but sometimes disturbing, the work of Danilo Bucchi is both dreamlike and realistic, giving the viewer the power of interpretation and perhaps of identification.
As Achille Bonito Oliva writes, Bucchi does not fly free in the truth of matter, he does not want to transform art into a practice that cancels the physical gravity of the world … he wants to strengthen it by the foundation of a real, figurable method, capable of extracting a sign, formalizing and circumscribing in the enclosure of a necessary shape is the dark weight of color.
Danilo Bucchi (Rome, 1978) completes his studies in Rome, where he attends the Academy of Fine Arts focusing on the techniques of drawing, painting and photography. From the beginning, the artist demonstrates a severe determination to root his language in a universe of signs that refers to the tradition of European abstraction of the first avant-gardes, with the aid of highly technological techniques and supports.
He began exhibiting in 2003, participating in international exhibitions in cities such as Bucharest (Parliament House 2016), Sofia (SAMCA 2016), Bulgaria (City Art Gallery of Varna 2014), Costanza (Museum of Archeology 2014), Singapore (Partners & Mucciaccia Gallery 2013), Athens (True Lies_Copelouzos Art Museum_2012), New York (MET Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010), Beijing (798 art discrict 2008) and Cairo (10th Biennale Internazionale, 2006), Paris (Institute of Italian Culture, 2007 ), Buenos Aires (Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, 2005), Baku (Embassy of Italy, 2004) and Amsterdam (Supper Club, 2003).
Danilo Bucchi’s most important solo shows are : Contemporary Art Society (2008, Rome); Museum of the Risorgimento (2011, Bologna); Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts (2011, Spoleto); Laboratory Museum of Contemporary Art (2011, Rome); Poggiali and Forconi Gallery (2015, Florence); Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery (2016, Rome). Between 2014 and 2015 Danilo Bucchi is invited to realize three major urban redevelopment projects: Il paese dei balocchi (2014 Rome) the permanent work present at the MAAM; Assolo (2015, Rome) for Big City Life in Tor Marancia, which was also part of the Venice Biennale (15th Architecture Exhibition, Italy Pavilion); Minotauro (2015, Catania) for Emergence Festival, while 2017 was marked by the solo show Lunar Black at MACRO in Rome, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
Danilo Bucchi’s work is part of the following public collections: CONTEMPORARY PRATO Bastione Delle Forche, MUSEO PECCI (Prato), FARNESINA COLLECTION Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Rome), COLLICOLA ON THE WALL Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts (Spoleto), TRUE LIES COPELOUZOS ART MUSEUM (Athens). In 2018 he enters the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome with the work “LIQUID”.
Year: 2018 February
