Marco Eusepi
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
NOVO - Eduardo Secci Firenze
Florence, from November 19 to January 15, 2022
Opening: Friday, November 19, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video available online
Exhibition view, Marco Eusepi, 2021, Florence, Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
In Florence, NOVO, the new independent experimental space of Eduardo Secci, is pleased to announce the solo show of Marco Eusepi curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, from November 19 to January 15, 2022.
The exhibition, completely dedicated to painting, ranges from works on canvas to paper, forming a corpus that, although heterogeneous in sizes and supports, directs the viewer's vision on natural anatomies once presented in their entirety, once in the form of a fragment.
So, Eusepi moving within a territory dear to the art history - where the representation of nature, landscape tradition and attention to the single element constitute a research as ancient as contemporary - seems to re-propose the question by offering a perspective that is intimate and at the same time shared through a painting with soft and delicate tones.
Marco Eusepi's current investigation focuses on the natural element as a pretext for starting a metalinguistic reflection on painting. In his pictorial grammar, the surface becomes a field of formal deconstruction in which the different levels merge, questioning the compositional hierarchies through the creation of new matter organisms.
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist will be online at www.novo.ooo/exhibitions.
Curatorial essay by Pier Paolo Pancotto
Marco Eusepi (Anzio, 1991; lives and works in Rome) remains faithful to tradition without falling into the manner or nostalgia of the past; naturally, without premeditation. In this lies its relevance. In fact, he is capable of belonging to his own time while moving with ease within the codes that historically regulate the artistic discipline, recognizing them not as an imposed limit but, rather, as a useful tool to translate the intentions of his practice into universal terms. Thus, without resorting to any premeditated strategy, harbinger of an immediate yet ephemeral response, he relies on the technical systems that have always governed pictorial and graphic research, identifying in them authentic travelling companions, capable, like none before, to make explicit Eusepi’s personal exploration of reality; and, bending them to his own aesthetic and intellectual needs, he renews their functions, updating them.
Eusepi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After having obtained his degree, he made his debut on the exhibition scene and, among several projects, he was the protagonist of a solo show at the Albert Van Dyck Museum in Antwerp (2019) and at the Spazio Mensa in Rome (2021) of which he is also one of the promoters.
His canvases, as well as his papers, focus much of their attention on the study of nature, captured in its micro and macroscopic aspects; that is to say, focusing on the detail of a flower or the portion of a plant element and then moving to a vast view or a boundless landscape. Similarly, they develop in either small or large dimensions: with rare exceptions, they do not contemplate half measures. This dichotomy, so evident on the iconographic and iconological as well as physical level, is contrasted by a rather univocal lexicon in which figuration and abstraction converge at the same time according to the artist's poetics, suspended in a constant polarization between emotion and memory, fleeting impression and assimilation of the real world.
The works on display in Florence are proof of this. It is a group of small-format canvas-backed papers to which three sheets of the same size are added. The works, all dated between 2019 and 2021 and painted in acrylic, have floral elements as subjects that, following a chromatic rang - now more faithful to the real, now more imaginative - emerge from the light background of the paper with the same unregulated speed with which, in everyday life, run through the artist’s eyes and heart. Because, in short, this is how Eusepi’s way to proceed could be summarized: relying on the speed of a pictorial gesture to restore the immediacy of a sensation - mostly, aroused by nature - and thus making the spectators part of it, by sharing the experience with them perceptive that gave them origin; spontaneously, without relying to any artifice, just as, following the natural course of things, the event took place. In this sense, these flowers, these views take on an almost autobiographical character, given the intimate process that determined them.
In Florence there is also Untitled (Trees) (2021), a large oil on canvas where, on the light surface, of a cold and milky white, the irregular profile of a materially decomposed tree barely emerges - branches and shrubs break on the seamlessly - and chromatically - the colors adopted suddenly turn into their opposite shades -. Visual and emotional impression once again prevails over a direct awareness of reality, testifying to the deeply empathic character that governs Eusepi's creative action.
Exhibition view, Marco Eusepi, 2021, Florence, Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Flowers), 2019, acrylic on canvas paper, 24 x 32 cm (9.4 x 12.5 in), Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Flowers), 2019, acrylic on canvas paper, 24 x 32 cm (9.4 x 12.5 in), Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi (Anzio, 1991) lives and works in Rome. In 2015, he obtained a diploma in Painting and in 2018 in Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
His solo shows include Cose Viste, Marco Eusepi - Sergio Sarra, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2021); The life and death of a cloud, Curva Pura, Rome (2020); Opere Pittoriche, Link Campus University, Rome (2019); Underpainting, Albert Van Dyck Museum, Schilde, Anversa (2019). His works have been exhibited in several group shows, Ricominciare dal Silenzio, co_atto, Milan (2021); Ineffable Worlds, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2021); Opening Exhibition, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2020); Segno Contemporaneo, Dingyuan International Art Center, Beijing (2019); Academia Italia, VII Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Saint Petersburg (2019); Now and Forward II, Gallery of Arts, Temple University, Rome (2019); Hanji - opere in carta, Istituto di Cultura Coreano, Rome (2018); Masters Salon Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (2017), among others.
Pier Paolo Pancotto è Pier Paolo Pancotto is curator of La Fondazione in Rome and of the Art Club exhibition program at Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.
NOVO is the new independent experimental space of Eduardo Secci. It was born out in 2021 of the necessity for a dialogue between art and the languages of new contemporary. NOVO functions as an incubator of ideas encouraging the work of young artists and their future developments.
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and NOVO, its new independent experimental space.
NOVO Firenze
Marco Eusepi
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From November 19 to January 15, 2022
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Between belief and delusions - Levi van Veluw
From November 19 to January 15, 2022
Opening: Friday, November 19, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy / +39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
NOVO Milano
Bright Beneath - Kristian Touborg
From December 9 to February 5, 2022
Eduardo Secci Milano
Vibrato - Stanley Casselman
Curated by David Anfam
From December 9 to February 5, 2022
Opening: Thursday, December 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Press preview: 4:00 pm
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy / +39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo / IG @novo_projects / FB @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com / IG @eduardoseccigallery / FB @eduardoseccicontemporary
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators:
www.novo.ooo/exhibitions - www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
Marco Eusepi
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
NOVO - Eduardo Secci Firenze
Florence, from November 19 to January 15, 2022
Opening: Friday, November 19, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video available online
Exhibition view, Marco Eusepi, 2021, Florence, Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
In Florence, NOVO, the new independent experimental space of Eduardo Secci, is pleased to announce the solo show of Marco Eusepi curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, from November 19 to January 15, 2022.
The exhibition, completely dedicated to painting, ranges from works on canvas to paper, forming a corpus that, although heterogeneous in sizes and supports, directs the viewer's vision on natural anatomies once presented in their entirety, once in the form of a fragment.
So, Eusepi moving within a territory dear to the art history - where the representation of nature, landscape tradition and attention to the single element constitute a research as ancient as contemporary - seems to re-propose the question by offering a perspective that is intimate and at the same time shared through a painting with soft and delicate tones.
Marco Eusepi's current investigation focuses on the natural element as a pretext for starting a metalinguistic reflection on painting. In his pictorial grammar, the surface becomes a field of formal deconstruction in which the different levels merge, questioning the compositional hierarchies through the creation of new matter organisms.
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist will be online at www.novo.ooo/exhibitions.
Curatorial essay by Pier Paolo Pancotto
Marco Eusepi (Anzio, 1991; lives and works in Rome) remains faithful to tradition without falling into the manner or nostalgia of the past; naturally, without premeditation. In this lies its relevance. In fact, he is capable of belonging to his own time while moving with ease within the codes that historically regulate the artistic discipline, recognizing them not as an imposed limit but, rather, as a useful tool to translate the intentions of his practice into universal terms. Thus, without resorting to any premeditated strategy, harbinger of an immediate yet ephemeral response, he relies on the technical systems that have always governed pictorial and graphic research, identifying in them authentic travelling companions, capable, like none before, to make explicit Eusepi’s personal exploration of reality; and, bending them to his own aesthetic and intellectual needs, he renews their functions, updating them.
Eusepi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After having obtained his degree, he made his debut on the exhibition scene and, among several projects, he was the protagonist of a solo show at the Albert Van Dyck Museum in Antwerp (2019) and at the Spazio Mensa in Rome (2021) of which he is also one of the promoters.
His canvases, as well as his papers, focus much of their attention on the study of nature, captured in its micro and macroscopic aspects; that is to say, focusing on the detail of a flower or the portion of a plant element and then moving to a vast view or a boundless landscape. Similarly, they develop in either small or large dimensions: with rare exceptions, they do not contemplate half measures. This dichotomy, so evident on the iconographic and iconological as well as physical level, is contrasted by a rather univocal lexicon in which figuration and abstraction converge at the same time according to the artist's poetics, suspended in a constant polarization between emotion and memory, fleeting impression and assimilation of the real world.
The works on display in Florence are proof of this. It is a group of small-format canvas-backed papers to which three sheets of the same size are added. The works, all dated between 2019 and 2021 and painted in acrylic, have floral elements as subjects that, following a chromatic rang - now more faithful to the real, now more imaginative - emerge from the light background of the paper with the same unregulated speed with which, in everyday life, run through the artist’s eyes and heart. Because, in short, this is how Eusepi’s way to proceed could be summarized: relying on the speed of a pictorial gesture to restore the immediacy of a sensation - mostly, aroused by nature - and thus making the spectators part of it, by sharing the experience with them perceptive that gave them origin; spontaneously, without relying to any artifice, just as, following the natural course of things, the event took place. In this sense, these flowers, these views take on an almost autobiographical character, given the intimate process that determined them.
In Florence there is also Untitled (Trees) (2021), a large oil on canvas where, on the light surface, of a cold and milky white, the irregular profile of a materially decomposed tree barely emerges - branches and shrubs break on the seamlessly - and chromatically - the colors adopted suddenly turn into their opposite shades -. Visual and emotional impression once again prevails over a direct awareness of reality, testifying to the deeply empathic character that governs Eusepi's creative action.
Exhibition view, Marco Eusepi, 2021, Florence, Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Flowers), 2019, acrylic on canvas paper, 24 x 32 cm (9.4 x 12.5 in), Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Flowers), 2019, acrylic on canvas paper, 24 x 32 cm (9.4 x 12.5 in), Photo Stefano Maniero, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi (Anzio, 1991) lives and works in Rome. In 2015, he obtained a diploma in Painting and in 2018 in Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
His solo shows include Cose Viste, Marco Eusepi - Sergio Sarra, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2021); The life and death of a cloud, Curva Pura, Rome (2020); Opere Pittoriche, Link Campus University, Rome (2019); Underpainting, Albert Van Dyck Museum, Schilde, Anversa (2019). His works have been exhibited in several group shows, Ricominciare dal Silenzio, co_atto, Milan (2021); Ineffable Worlds, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2021); Opening Exhibition, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2020); Segno Contemporaneo, Dingyuan International Art Center, Beijing (2019); Academia Italia, VII Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Saint Petersburg (2019); Now and Forward II, Gallery of Arts, Temple University, Rome (2019); Hanji - opere in carta, Istituto di Cultura Coreano, Rome (2018); Masters Salon Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (2017), among others.
Pier Paolo Pancotto è Pier Paolo Pancotto is curator of La Fondazione in Rome and of the Art Club exhibition program at Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.
NOVO is the new independent experimental space of Eduardo Secci. It was born out in 2021 of the necessity for a dialogue between art and the languages of new contemporary. NOVO functions as an incubator of ideas encouraging the work of young artists and their future developments.
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and NOVO, its new independent experimental space.
NOVO Firenze
Marco Eusepi
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From November 19 to January 15, 2022
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Between belief and delusions - Levi van Veluw
From November 19 to January 15, 2022
Opening: Friday, November 19, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy / +39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
NOVO Milano
Bright Beneath - Kristian Touborg
From December 9 to February 5, 2022
Eduardo Secci Milano
Vibrato - Stanley Casselman
Curated by David Anfam
From December 9 to February 5, 2022
Opening: Thursday, December 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Press preview: 4:00 pm
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy / +39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo / IG @novo_projects / FB @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com / IG @eduardoseccigallery / FB @eduardoseccicontemporary
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators:
www.novo.ooo/exhibitions - www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
