Walls. Screens of urban memories - curated by Raffaella Nobili

A curation by Raffaella Nobili, Owner and curator at Paraventi Giapponesi - Three selected artists, three different ways of narrating the skin of cities. Walls become sensitive devices, screens that register the pulse of change and fill the gaze with breaths, sometimes broad, sometimes concentrated. They are not simple architectural boundaries, but narrative surfaces that reveal the connection between space and memory. In Morales, the wall becomes an architecture of precision: it fills the gaze and leads it along geometric lines. The pale tones harmonize with the skies and rooftops, drawn as essential signs. Beauty arises from control, from the silent precision of proportions. The field collects urban fragments, fixing them in images where time becomes matter. Traces and oxidations act as activators of form, revealing the memory of the material. The sections of wall chosen with an aesthetic eye become abstract in chromatic balance. For De Roeck, the wall is a place of passage and return: spaces suspended between use and abandonment. His is an aesthetic perspective on disuse that transforms consumption into language and gives form to silence. Walls are not barriers, but screens that project the passage of time and the use that man makes of it in inhabiting places.

32 Artworks

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