Bankeri | NOTHING BUT FLOWERS
Curated by Valentina Luzi | In collaboration with EMMEOTTO ARTE
Opening September 18th 2019 h 7 pm
RELAIS RIONE PONTE | ROMA
Via Giuseppe Zanardelli, 20 – 00186
(only by appointment)
Relais Rione Ponte, in collaboration with Emmeotto gallery, inaugurates the 2019/2020 exhibition season with the new layout of the spaces that will be divided between suites and rooms, which will host works by the artists of the previous exhibitions and of the permanent collection of the Relais (Barbara Salvucci, Renzo Bellanca, keziat, Desiderio and Andreas Senoner) to confirm the continuity of the artistic project carried out in recent years, and the common areas that will see temporary exhibitions alternating.
Protagonist of the new spatial (di)vision is the artist Bankeri with the personal show Bankeri - Nothing but Flowers which opens on Wednesday 18th of September 2019 at 7.00 pm.
As one can deduce, this is an exhibition which speaks of flowers, despite a certain ironic approach, right from the title. On display new works produced by Bankeri for the exhibition and a foray from the past, in which the subject in question was already present. The common paradigm is characterized by the treatment of the forms and the mastery of the matter brought to a level of maturity and mastery such as to allow the artist to have fun articulating between papers and canvases, colors from the most different tones to fluorescent, serigraphy and overlapping at multiple levels of physical and mental elements, in a continuous contamination.
The flowers were among the undisputed protagonists of the history of art, sometimes considered the second class genre, as a still life, some other times analyzed only with encyclopedic-scientific or decorative intent, but one thing is certain, their formal and color diversity have been one of the privileged grounds of experimentation of the greatest artists and at the conceptual level they have always represented the synonym of the transience of existence, the making and unmaking of Nature, the eternal dichotomy between beginning and end, the precariousness of the human condition ... a not easy role! In fact, if on the one hand the flowers are bearers of life, of the blossoming of the new while on the other, they are destined to decomposition, to represent the conclusion, as it is in every cycle of existence. The flower, strong in its full beauty, is a momentary temporal piece, the metaphorical passage in reality, as temporary and destined for a short time it is the stay of the guests in the Relais, travellers between one stage and another, between arriving and leaving ... same it is the life of all living beings. So what does art do to freeze the passage of time? To make real the illusion of beauty destined to get lost? It makes a moment eternal, it stops the image of a subject and gives us the enjoyment of it forever. This contradictory meaning it is conveyed by nothing but flowers, something apparently simple, fragile but with an universal essence. The aesthetic impact of Bankeri's works, vibrating and engaging, makes this process light and intoxicating, absolutely contemporary and captivating. Despite the technical complexity and the presence of color in the foreground, no element is heavy or redundant. This small private garden, which unfolds among the rooms of the Relais, becomes the locus amoenus of our days, a place to live the time of the artistic experience, involved by that synaesthetic approach that only Bankeri's works can give and you want to take away some of that feeling and continue to cultivate it elsewhere, in your own space, in your own passage.
Relais Rione Ponte has always set itself as a mission the sharing between hospitality and contemporary art in an immersive dimension - and which symbol best represents the concept of hospitality, if not the flower? - therefore, the exhibition is the opportunity and the pretext to create that visual and emotional interaction between exhibited works and guests who will spend, within the spaces set up, the time of their stay between ... Nothing but Flowers.
Bankeri (Francesco Bancheri) lives and works in Rome. After his artistic high school diploma at the 1st artistic high school in via Ripetta he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in Scenography in 2001, deepens his interest in photography and also works as a set designer in different sectors; in the theatre, in particular, in 2005 he signs the scenes for the Italian edition of the show "Concha Bonita" with the music of the Oscar Prize Nicola Piovani. Much of his research focuses on the transformation of the induced visual message, especially the media one. Newspapers reduced to clippings are brought back to their reality of signs, textures and colors to be used as pictorial medium through the collage technique. Bankeri fragments, cuts, glues, tears, transforming newspapers, posters etc. in something imaginative, of "different", in which any reference to the "forced" message disappears.
Among the experiences of 2019, the setting up of the Black Room of the Macroasilo in Rome with the DreamOn / DreamOff project; participation in the group shows "The labyrinth of the gaze" at the Palazzo Nicolaci di Noto Gallery (Sr), "Introspective Window" at the Emmeotto Gallery in Rome, "Microcosmo" at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj Museum in Valmontone (Rm); the residence at the Macroasilo of Giorgio de Finis in December 2018 at the Macro Museum of Rome; the presence in 2017 in the collection of the BoCs Art Museum of Cosenza curated by Alberto Dambruoso following a residence project; in 2016 he took part in the "Mezzagalera" project curated by Giorgio de Finis, a project of artistic residence in the former prison of Montefiascone (VT) Mezzagalera artists residence; in 2015 he took part in "INSIEME", the work created by the Maam artists at Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella; for Metropoliz's Museum of the Other and Elsewhere, in 2014 it produced a series of large-format wall collages. His works are included in the permanent collection of the DIF, the widespread museum of Formello, which also hosted the solo exhibition of the artist "Panem et Circenses" in June 2016.
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