FROM 5 december 2009 TO 24 january 2009
Techincal Info
Photographs by Mattia Ruggeri
Opening: Thursday 4th December 2008 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Vision Quest Contemporary Photography, Piazza Invrea 4r, 16128 Genova
Tel.: +39 010265629 - +3903397534993
Hours: Wednesday to Friday 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm, Saturday 10 am to 12.30 pm - 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm and by appointment tel. +39 3397534993
Web site: www.visionquest.it
information and e-mail: info@visionquest.it
In collaboration with MC2Gallery and with the contribution of the printing lab Fine Art Arscolor, Milan
Mattia Ruggeri will attend the opening
Press Release
VISION QUEST CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Is pleased to present
“Nave di Terra” (Land Ship) by Mattia Ruggeri
Opening: Thursday 4th December 2008, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Dates: 5th December 2008 – 24th January 2009
Hours: Wednesday to Friday, 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm, Saturday 10 am - 12.30 pm / 3.30 pm - 7.30 pm or by appointment (tel. +39 3397534993)
Web site: www.visionquest.it
Information & e-mail: info@visionquest.it
In collaboration with: MC2Gallery
Mattia will attend the opening
The infinite and the invisible are for Mattia Ruggeri the primary research field inside which his work comes to life: in fact, while moving within an apparent emptiness, he finds again the matter and shapes dreams are made of, and, through the wise and impeccable use of light, brings them back to reality.
He opens a door on to the cosmos taking us on a metaphysical journey where we are free to slowly explore the most secluded corners of the soul. Infinity draws near and the invisible becomes visible again, showing us how lost memories can be similar to everyday gestures.
His slow research is nevertheless, composed of small gestures thought and perceived in a dream like atmosphere that turns into a real tableau vivant inside which emotions are free to play.
Mattia Ruggeri breaks the laws of darkness and absence using the motor that runs the universe: light.
Tepid glows are placed side by side bright visions in a game of wise and evocative cross-references that are everything but casual. Every single work, born after a slow gestation and fruit of careful reflections and sudden intuitions, begins to gradually compose itself on film; through an almost ritualistic "dance" that sees the artist himself becoming the shaman.
The rite ends through a spell inside which, we find the traces of that existence able to conduct us in the depths of our essence. At this point we can no longer speak “simply” of photographs but, rather, of real, wide open doors into the unconscious. As if under the spell of a magic filter, we cannot turn away and, while pervaded by a feeling of calmness, we are brought back to ourselves.
Fabrizio Boggiano