Acustica
Eduardo Secci gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Alfredo Pirri’s solo show “Acustica”, curated by Laura Cherubini, on Friday, October 8, 2021 (4.00 – 9.00 pm), in Milan (Via Bernardino Zenale 3). The exhibition will be on view until November 27, 2021.
Introducing the project, the evocative words by the artist:
The exhibition is called “Acustica”, which means hearing and listening.
According to the Italian encyclopedia La Treccani: “Traditionally it is considered the science that studies sound, its properties, its mechanism of formation, propagation and reception, and, today it encompasses all the vibratory phenomena of matter and all frequencies.”
It is composed (… like a piece of music) of watercolors.
Six are large-scale, about 250 cm (98.4 in) high by 117 cm (46 in) base including frames. So, they are big enough for how we generally imagine watercolors and in fact, when you open your mouth to pronounce the word watercolor, something minor resounds in your head, both in measure and in technical and ideal dedication, a playful and light material comes to mind. Indeed, these works are transparent and luminous as the technique imposes, but they have an unclear presence that is difficult to define in words. Inside and on the surface, they are animated by a nameless force that makes them appear alien to tradition yet within it. They are watercolors on paper bonded on aluminum and framed. Moreover, there will be others of different dimensions. Some of them are very small, the first of this series.To properly defining these works, it is better to use words unrelated to art – therefore, “acoustic” is appropriate.
You see round signs encircled by halos that open and overlap. At times, they recall the rain falling and bouncing in puddles, sometimes little loathsome, other times opened and bright. What happens is that everything vibrates together, putting shapes and colors in resonance. Those same in which we live immersed in the cities, on their fringes, and then further away where, perhaps, we would like to live.
Alfredo Pirri
Eduardo Secci gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Alfredo Pirri’s solo show “Acustica”, curated by Laura Cherubini, on Friday, October 8, 2021 (4.00 – 9.00 pm), in Milan (Via Bernardino Zenale 3). The exhibition will be on view until November 27, 2021.
Introducing the project, the evocative words by the artist:
The exhibition is called “Acustica”, which means hearing and listening.
According to the Italian encyclopedia La Treccani: “Traditionally it is considered the science that studies sound, its properties, its mechanism of formation, propagation and reception, and, today it encompasses all the vibratory phenomena of matter and all frequencies.”
It is composed (… like a piece of music) of watercolors.
Six are large-scale, about 250 cm (98.4 in) high by 117 cm (46 in) base including frames. So, they are big enough for how we generally imagine watercolors and in fact, when you open your mouth to pronounce the word watercolor, something minor resounds in your head, both in measure and in technical and ideal dedication, a playful and light material comes to mind. Indeed, these works are transparent and luminous as the technique imposes, but they have an unclear presence that is difficult to define in words. Inside and on the surface, they are animated by a nameless force that makes them appear alien to tradition yet within it. They are watercolors on paper bonded on aluminum and framed. Moreover, there will be others of different dimensions. Some of them are very small, the first of this series.To properly defining these works, it is better to use words unrelated to art – therefore, “acoustic” is appropriate.
You see round signs encircled by halos that open and overlap. At times, they recall the rain falling and bouncing in puddles, sometimes little loathsome, other times opened and bright. What happens is that everything vibrates together, putting shapes and colors in resonance. Those same in which we live immersed in the cities, on their fringes, and then further away where, perhaps, we would like to live.
Alfredo Pirri
Alfredo Pirri, Motore, 2019Watercolor on paper
76.5 x 57.5 cm
30 6/50 x 22 32/50 in
Alfredo Pirri, Motore, 2019Watercolor on paper
76.5 x 57.5 cm
30 6/50 x 22 32/50 in
Alfredo Pirri, Motore, 2019Watercolor on paper
76.5 x 57.5 cm
30 6/50 x 22 32/50 in
Alfredo Pirri, Motore, 2019Watercolor on paper
76.5 x 57.5 cm
30 6/50 x 22 32/50 in
Alfredo Pirri, Motore, 2019Watercolor on paper
76.5 x 57.5 cm
30 6/50 x 22 32/50 in
Alfredo Pirri was born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1957. He lives and works in Rome, is one of the best-known artists working there. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and graduated with a degree in Painting.
His work, between painting and sculpture, architecture and installation, gains international recognition in the mid-80s. Color, matter, volume and space are instrumental to his practice which finds, in the relationship with light, the origin of a research which continuously reinvents itself. The work of Alfredo Pirri harmonically confronts architecture and constantly tends to the creation of an archetypal place, a space for dwelling connected to a public function.
Alfredo Pirri has exhibited in several museums and biennials, in Italy and abroad, among which: Eduardo Secci Milan (2021); Castello Maniace, Siracusa (2021); MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2017), Nomas Foundation (2016-2017), Museo Novecento, Florence (2015); London Design Festival (2015); National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome with the semi-permanent installation “Passi” (2012-2016); Palazzo Te, Mantova (2013) e Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground Konjic, Bosnia Herzegovina (2013), where “Passi” is permanently exhibited; National Archaeological Museum Reggio Calabria (2011) with his permanent installation “Piazza”; Visual Arts Centre Pescheria, Pesaro (2007); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Parigi (2006); Havana Biennial (2001); French Academy in Rome -Villa Medici (2000); MoMa PS1, New York (1999); Korrespondenzen, Walter Gropius Bau, Berlino (1992); Venice Biennial (1988).
His recent collaborations with architects Nicola di Battista (director of Domus) and Efisio Pitfalls (Studio PROAP, Lisbon) were exhibited in 2015 at the British School in Rome.
He has taught at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, at the Sapienza University in Rome, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. He is currently teaching Painting at the Academy in Frosinone and Visual Arts Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.
In 2015 AMACI (Italian Association for Contemporary Art Museums) selected Alfredo Pirri as guiding artist for the eleventh contemporary art day.
Alfredo Pirri was born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1957. He lives and works in Rome, is one of the best-known artists working there. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and graduated with a degree in Painting.
His work, between painting and sculpture, architecture and installation, gains international recognition in the mid-80s. Color, matter, volume and space are instrumental to his practice which finds, in the relationship with light, the origin of a research which continuously reinvents itself. The work of Alfredo Pirri harmonically confronts architecture and constantly tends to the creation of an archetypal place, a space for dwelling connected to a public function.
Alfredo Pirri has exhibited in several museums and biennials, in Italy and abroad, among which: Eduardo Secci Milan (2021); Castello Maniace, Siracusa (2021); MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2017), Nomas Foundation (2016-2017), Museo Novecento, Florence (2015); London Design Festival (2015); National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome with the semi-permanent installation “Passi” (2012-2016); Palazzo Te, Mantova (2013) e Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground Konjic, Bosnia Herzegovina (2013), where “Passi” is permanently exhibited; National Archaeological Museum Reggio Calabria (2011) with his permanent installation “Piazza”; Visual Arts Centre Pescheria, Pesaro (2007); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Parigi (2006); Havana Biennial (2001); French Academy in Rome -Villa Medici (2000); MoMa PS1, New York (1999); Korrespondenzen, Walter Gropius Bau, Berlino (1992); Venice Biennial (1988).
His recent collaborations with architects Nicola di Battista (director of Domus) and Efisio Pitfalls (Studio PROAP, Lisbon) were exhibited in 2015 at the British School in Rome.
He has taught at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, at the Sapienza University in Rome, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. He is currently teaching Painting at the Academy in Frosinone and Visual Arts Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.
In 2015 AMACI (Italian Association for Contemporary Art Museums) selected Alfredo Pirri as guiding artist for the eleventh contemporary art day.
- Claire Fontaine
