Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Navid Azimi Sajadi's first solo show in Trento - The Bridge - on Thursday December 12th, 6.30 pm. The artist sets up in the Gallery a part of the whole The Bridge Project, that has been presented by MACRO Museum, Rome, in 2018. The project concerns a series of drawings (hand-made inks, watercolors, gold leafs on Fabriano paper), works on canvas and a documentary film (La Chimera), directed by Marcello Lippi, that, together, represent an allegorical parade. "Half-wheel or bridge figures refer to visual cults of the Mediterranean area, streched from Egypt to Etruscans. Each of these figures contains a particular hybrid objects, cross-dressed with a unified fusion of various religious objects and familiar cult-images or known symbols and historical references of our contemporary society. These personages give life to new contents and visual metaphors. The transfiguration of these figures, together with the rhythm of juxtaposition of the works, shows the way these images are created and transformed into the idols of our contemporary era. This imaginary bridge is a parade of female idols, a procession of the cult-images of our time, celebrating and announcing an apocalyptic coexistence" (statement of the artist).
"The whole project by Navid Azimi Sajadi wants to be a real, celebrative and human, 'bridge' between western and eastern culture. This project develops in the form of a parade, a metaphoric and visionary procession of female contemporary characters, with postures that have references in the figures of ancient vases, like goddesses of a new possible world in the act of give birth to real symbols of a universe in motion. The interpretation is left free for everyone, sign that there is no defined codex to read this works. The nude bodies of the bridge-women are metaphorical signs that unify diverse influences. This is an evident proof that meanings have to be shared and reenacted with new values" (Francesca Baboni and Stefano Taddei from the presentation essay of the exhibition).

Opening: Thursday December 12th 2019, 6.30 pm

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