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16 November - 22 December 2006 (Rome, Palazzo Venezia) Oliviero Rainaldi curated by Danilo Eccher One such example can be seen in the poignant poetics of Oliviero Rainaldi. This is work whose poignancy arises from an almost unconscious daring, which leads the artist to dance on the very edge of the precipice; from a profound spirituality, which enables him to narrate the impossible. From the point of view of form and medium, Oliviero Rainaldi’s work straddles the boundary between painting and sculpture, between the figurative and the abstract, between remarkable precision of research and unequally remarkable indeterminacy of emotion. The artist-as-painter is clearly to be seen in the rich series of drawings that accompany, overlap and blend with his other works. These are far from being preparatory studies; even when they uggest an image, they are not sketches. Perhaps only a few scant lines on a rather unlikely sheet, Oliviero Rainaldi’s drawings are, in each and every case, complete and mature works, with their own character and personality. In the praxis of sculpture Rainaldi draws upon an extraordinary technical ability, engaging in creative dialogue with plaster, lead, bronze, marble, terracotta and glass. Each term in this rich vocabulary of materials has its own soul, voice, immediacy and expressive potential—and Rainaldi exploits these to the full. The result is that the medium of the work is not just “skin” that envelopes it, but rather a linguistic resource which plays an unmistakable role in the development of the narrative. Of all these materials, however, Rainaldi has a certain predilection for plaster. This is in part due to the fragile, instinctive nature of the material, to the fact that in coagulating it captures the very liquidity of form […] This is clear in all Rainaldi’s art, but it is particularly apparent in the Rilievi. These are works of plastic modelling that use space and volume in such a way as to undermine the two-dimensional character of the surface.At the same time as being sculpture, they are also pictures, drawings, which contain the image within symbolic abstraction,within the simplicity of the medium’s skin. The eye is called upon to touch, to caress the unfolding of form within the folds of matter. Like clouds forming shapes in the sky, figures and faces emerge within the material. The clear and sharp images are not on the surface,they are part of it; they have the same body and consistency. The face which appears within the marble slab is the face of the stone;it is the secret, the soul of a material that knows one thousand tales, is familiar with one thousand characters. Rainaldi’s Rilievi reflect a contradictory desire for order and transgression, safety and hazard. The exibithion is promoted by Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Romano in sponsorship with Ministero dei Beni Culturali e del Comune di Roma. created by the support of Gioco del Lotto Lottomatica e Mercedes-Benz Roma. organized by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere. more information:www.olivierorainaldi.net     | |
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