double solo exhibition by Raffaele De Francesco and Francesco Peri "JOINT ALCHEMY - paths between art and biochemistry"

Inauguration of the painting exhibition

"Joint alchemies - paths between art and biochemistry"

Hours: 17.30

Free admission

Saturday 21 October 2017 at 5.30 pm the Click Art Cultural Art Center inaugurates the double solo exhibition of Raffaele De Francesco and Francesco Peri, in the historic center of Cormano, in via Dall'Occo 1, among courtyards, courtyards and buildings of the 1600s.

Free admission

Saturday 21 October 2017 at 5.30 pm the Click Art Cultural Artistic Center, in the historic center of Cormano, in via Dall'Occo 1, among courtyards, courtyards and buildings of the 1600s, inaugurates the double solo exhibition of Raffaele De Francesco and Francesco Peri . Raffaele De Francesco works and paints in Milan, where as his main profession he deals with scientific research in the biomedical field. Always passionate about art and painting, he began his activity as a painter in 2008 dedicating himself entirely to informal painting. Painting thus represents for Raffaele De Francesco a means of knowledge of reality complementary to the scientific one: on the one hand scientific research, with its rational and objective approach, on the other painting, as an instinctive and introspective instrument of knowledge. Francesco Peri, lives and works in Milan, where he is full professor of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the Milano-Bicocca University. He found in painting and scientific research two complementary means through which he expresses himself and studies reality. He is fascinated by the relationship between Science and Art, he has organized international events on this theme. His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, he has a series of artistic collaborations in Italy and abroad.

It is always difficult to talk about Art, or worse still to write about Art, whatever it is, the words that at the time of pronouncing them meant something, once said they suddenly empty, become conceptual, often absurd, almost always useless. Looking at the works of these two artists, one cannot remain exempt from thinking that they are two scientific researchers, and looking at their works, I imagine myself looking at a world through the microscope, I cannot separate the two, the charm of these works , pushes me to “see them” with a rational eye on the one hand, while on the other, I imagine fantastic and unknown worlds that have yet to be “discovered”. These two artists, in painting, find a method of knowledge and investigation of reality, sometimes complementary to the scientific one, sometimes synergistic.

By Raffaele De Francesco, Virgilio Patarini writes: After having long experimented with different techniques and approaches in the field of Informal and Action Painting, starting from 2014 Raffaele De Francesco begins to venture into new and less known territories, even without completely deny its origins, and indeed, in some cases, treasuring the techniques acquired, but using them for different purposes. (...) We go even further along this direction with the very latest "new experiments", in which different techniques, materials and sources of inspiration find formal synthesis: writings, rough jute canvas, corrugated cardboard cut to simulate waves, perhaps hills of a stylized landscape appear: all elements that are added to the usual circles and rectangles and squares in relief, colored in hues flat on concrete floors. There is an evident search for harmony on the low tones of grays and browns in the chromatic range, and on the juxtaposition of geometrically aligned elements. What one comes to think of, looking at one of these small paintings is not a landscape or an urban glimpse, but rather a very tidy construction site or the warehouse of a freight forwarder: the work of art then becomes (also) a metaphor for something to be build, or a package to ship. A home or a trip. Or both together. "

Virgilio Patarini (From "Cross Over", Ed Giorgio Mondadori, 2017)

Di Francesco Peri, Davide Canadelli, tells us: There is a borderland, which we all meet in the course of life, but we do not always realize it. It is a land where the experiences, colors, flavors, sensations of existence come muffled and transfigured. It is a land of synchronic experience where time seems to have disappeared and all things merge into new forms. In this suspended place the outlines become blurred and the appearances uncertain, and the colors fade into the thousand facets of the experience. It is the borderland between childhood and adulthood, a land full of unspoken suggestions, of which we are often not even aware. But it exists within us, well hidden deep inside, who knows where. And if someone takes us by the hand, we can find it again and we can begin to discover the dizzying depth of existence, which we had long forgotten about. Francesco Peri, who knows how much consciously or how much under the pressure of an unconscious inner impulse, he set out on a journey. Walking along obsolete paths, he has rediscovered that the fog flickers with unexpected colors, that the light that enters from a window can be deeply moving, that a southern night is filled with ancestral nostalgia.

And that it is enough to look at a rooftop in the evening to see the secret links between things. Right on the edge of childhood, on the uncertain border between reality and fantasy, where a school of multicolored fish seems to come out of a book. Who knows how they float in midair ... if we think about it, however, it is not at all strange.

These artists are good, and they deserve to be known and appreciated by everyone, and we can do this on Saturday 21 October at 5.30 pm at the Click Art gallery in Cormano (MI)