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Photographs by Mattia Ruggeri<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Opening:<\/strong> Thursday 4th December 2008 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. In collaboration with MC2Gallery<\/strong> and with the contribution of the printing lab Fine Art Arscolor<\/strong>, Milan<\/p>\n Mattia Ruggeri will attend the opening<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> VISION QUEST CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n Is pleased to present<\/p>\n \u201cNave di Terra\u201d (Land Ship) by Mattia Ruggeri<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Opening:<\/strong> Thursday 4th December 2008, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In collaboration with:<\/strong> MC2Gallery<\/p>\n Mattia will attend the opening<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0Fabrizio Boggiano<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FROM 5 december 2009 TO 24 january 2009\u00a0 Photographs by Mattia RuggeriOpening: Thursday 4th December 2008 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.Vision Quest Contemporary Photography, Piazza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Vision Quest Contemporary Photography, Piazza Invrea 4r, 16128 Genova
Tel.: <\/strong>+39 010265629 - +3903397534993
Hours:<\/strong> Wednesday to Friday\u00a03.30 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:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it
<\/a>information and e-mail: info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\nPress Release<\/h3>\n
Dates:<\/strong> 5th December 2008 \u2013 24th January 2009
Hours:<\/strong> Wednesday to Friday, 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm,\u00a0Saturday 10 am - 12.30 pm \/ 3.30 pm - 7.30 pm or\u00a0by appointment (tel. +39 3397534993)
Web site:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Information &\u00a0 e-mail:<\/strong> \u00a0info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 speak \u201csimply\u201d of photographs but, rather, of real, wide open doors into the unconscious.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n