
17.7″x13.8″; paper on fresco tear; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Sequenze
HABITA79 MGallery Pompeii in Pompeii, Italy
10 December 2024-1 March 2025
Silvia Beltrami’s project is directed towards a material study characterized by the fresco tearing technique, a procedure by which a fresco is taken away from its original wall, by removing the pictorial part and the surface plaster and then transferred onto a new support (calicot method from the name of the thin canvas also called “grandmother’s rag” which is used to remove the fresco) where the artist subsequently intervenes by applying fragments of coated paper. “Sequenze” draws inspiration from the current events of our times which, mediated by the mass media, become propaganda, not allowing space for free thought and therefore feeding homogenisation.

57.5″x86.6″; paper on fresco tear; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
These works reproduce reality using fragments of reality, interpreting new infinite lives through them, where each fragment has its own history and the more they are, the more they overlap with each other and the more they lose their original identity, quoting the movie by The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Beltrami always places the figure as a point of reference, expressing in this way a poetics whose fulcrum is humanity, a humanity constantly running away from itself and from the others. The exhibition creates a dialogue between collage and fresco, between reality and historical knowledge, between the weight of the past and the fragmentation of the present. The selected works lead us to think about the structure of our collective transitive memory, a legacy of the heritage of Italian art. Beltrami decontextualizes the fresco and reinterprets it through her artistic research.
(text adapted from material provided by artist)
INFORMATION
HABITA79 MGallery Pompeii
Via Roma 10
80045 Pompeii, Italy
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