Opening<\/strong>: September 25th 2014 - from 7 pm\u00a0<\/p>\nSeptember 26th -\u00a0November 29th 2014 (Wednesday to Saturday 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm and by appointment)<\/p>\n
Ephemera is an insect that lives only one day, its life takes place in\u00a0 just 24 hours, going through all the stages and completing its journey\u00a0 in a very short amount of time.\u00a0 The name itself, in English Ephemeral, has become synonymous in common\u00a0 language as something temporary and evanescent, whose inconsistency\u00a0 demonstrates the total precariousness of its total physical state. Aqua Aura with some of the photographs in the exhibition, gives us his\u00a0 personal interpretation of the contemporary world, both from what first\u00a0 could be defined as a sociological point of view and\u00a0 second from a more\u00a0 specifically poetic one.\u00a0 In their objective and even disenchanted vision of our times, these\u00a0 photographs are the perfect metaphor for a condition that could have two\u00a0 distinct, but somehow equivalent meanings, depending on the assumptions\u00a0 on which their actual essential significance is based upon.\u00a0 The artist first places emphasis on the positive (and aesthetically\u00a0 poetic) qualities of what may appear transient and rarefied, as if they\u00a0 were features indicative of a situation of total lightness and\u00a0 temporariness, a type of homage to the fragility of things, their\u00a0 inability to stay in the world and their inevitable and inexorable\u00a0 decline. The other meaning, if we are to see it from a negative point of view, is\u00a0 inspired by the theories of \"Liquid Modernity\" by Zygmunt\u00a0 Bauman and then it further expresses a deeper and more personal\u00a0 reflection on the production and use of images in our so-called\u00a0 \"social\" era; the speed of change and the need to maintain\u00a0 a constant, if not greater, visual tension, compromises\u00a0 its\u00a0 intrinsic\u00a0 quality so much so that it no longer allows the creation of potential\u00a0 \"icons\" of expressive and unalterable power resistant to\u00a0 the passage of time, but it instead gives place to an undifferentiated\u00a0 mess of mediocre representations that actually reveal all their\u00a0 inconsistency of content and meaning, not so much in the forms they\u00a0 suggest but rather in the lack of real expressive needs from which they\u00a0 originate. Aqua Aura seems to therefore demonstrate, through his work, this\u00a0 dissolute and fleeting tendency;\u00a0 his works represent shapes that are\u00a0 both well-defined and smooth (spheres and ovals) and irregular, like\u00a0 soap bubbles generated by a light breath\u00a0 that in his imagination\u00a0 enclose, as precious and fragile transparent troves, soft and fluffy\u00a0 clouds, whose compactness and strength depend only on the gust of the\u00a0 wind or a slight change in energy, on an alteration of pressure or even\u00a0 just a simple desire to dissolve into the surrounding atmosphere, as if\u00a0 to want to annul themselves in the\u00a0 air and be part of a larger and\u00a0 invisible reality, the whole universe, the real and physical one but\u00a0\u00a0 especially the mental one arising from the creative will of the artist.\u00a0 This solo exhibition, taking place at VisionQuesT contemporary\u00a0 photography in Genoa, is a concrete example of the impermanence of form\u00a0 and transience of things just as the artist imagines them. The figures\u00a0 created by Aqua Aura become the very metaphor of continued mutation,\u00a0 these are impalpable and soft objects floating in the void,\u00a0 paradoxically light, because they enclose well defined distinguishable\u00a0 worlds and realities that are at the same time evanescent, solid oceans\u00a0 in perpetual transformation. The very exhibition set-up becomes the\u00a0 testing ground of this physical insecurity. The contrast between the\u00a0 static position of the photographic images presented by the artist and\u00a0 the mass of balloons floating in the exhibition space, make the\u00a0 transformation, which is only symbolic, of the work visually\u00a0 challenging. In this sense the time factor becomes crucial: with the\u00a0 passing of the days the air of these more or e less spherical forms,\u00a0 will lose its centrifugal force by continuing to change their overall\u00a0 perception, thus becoming a trace and memory of an aesthetic experience\u00a0 that no longer exists. The balloons will completely deflate, will loose\u00a0 their shape and will lie on the ground, as a memory of an event\u00a0 experienced only by the exhibition first viewers, leaving to the\u00a0 imagination of each of the subsequent viewers, the mental reconstruction\u00a0 of what has been and is no longer. This strong contrast is, in the economy of the exhibition, the\u00a0 cornerstone around which the peculiar poetics of the artist, rotates,\u00a0 perhaps an allegory of life, the fragility of earthly existence destined\u00a0 to last only for that same moment in which we become fully and\u00a0 consciously aware of it\u00a0\u00a0 Technical Information:\u00a0 Fine Art\u00a0 prints on Bright White Hahnemuehle cotton paper, gold leaf on\u00a0 frame. Various sizes , Edition of 3 and 5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bio\u00a0 Aqua Aura was born some time ago in Vimercate - Milan, where he lives\u00a0 and works. In 1988 he graduated from the Art School of Bergamo. In 1992\u00a0 he graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera with a\u00a0 study and a thesis on \"Anselm Kiefer - the other\u00a0\u00a0 Baroque\", a look at the contemporary German expressionist art, he\u00a0 then ...... continued his education around the world.\u00a0 The Aqua Aura is the result of a physical-chemical process, a precious\u00a0 transformation due to a heat treatment of gold with vapors capable of\u00a0 changing the external appearance of the color of a natural crystal\u00a0 (quartz) without affecting its shape and just imperceptibly its\u00a0 consistency. In reading the process, as presented in the descriptions\u00a0 found on the net, the operation may closely recall the\u00a0 ancient practice\u00a0 of alchemy, perhaps more valid for the activities of a smoky forge in\u00a0 the fifteenth century, rather than for a production of contemporary\u00a0 images. The journey\u00a0 seems to be traced by a pseudo scientist in the\u00a0 field of natural philosophy,\u00a0 searching for and extracting\u00a0 new orders\u00a0 in matter, floating between the physical and metaphysical reading of\u00a0 things. This is the evocative artifice that inspired Aqua Aura to\u00a0 describe and assert his artistic transformation, which occurred after a\u00a0 period of creative accomplishments and exhibitions\u00a0 on the field in the\u00a0 nineties - working closely with Italian art galleries and curators,\u00a0 participating in various group and solo exhibitions -\u00a0 followed\u00a0 subsequently by a period, of\u00a0 about twelve years, spent at a safe\u00a0 distance from the art world, living\u00a0 only as a researcher a spectator\u00a0 and traveler. Aqua Aura is therefore a (re)birth, which occurred through\u00a0 a slow and conscious metamorphosis that generated a new creative\u00a0 stimuli and a stronger thematic urge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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