curated by Ludovico Pratesi
Image: Alfredo Pirri, Aria, 2006. Courtesy Oredaria Arti Contemporanee. Foto di Mario Di Paolo
MACROwall:Eighties are Back! is a project that revisits Italian art of the 1980s via a collection of ten artists who represent the diverse types of research that characterized the artistic production that occurred in the decade. Each artist was invited to feature two pieces, one recent work and one from the 80s. to allow the public to examine the evolution of the creative process over the years. Each piece is accompanied by commentary from two art critics who represent the generations during which each work was made, the younger critic providing an analysis of the older work and vice versa. The audience is given the opportunity to observe how the creative process evolves over time.
The first instalment of MACROwall: Eighties are Back! features Alfredo Pirri (born in Cosenza in 1957): author, painter, sculptor and installation artist. His works are born of the union between the figurative and the abstract, reality and fiction, elements that alternate and overlap to arrive at artistic expression through expression of purity of form. The seemingly minimalist work on display at MACRO highlights the link found between color and light. Visitors observe the intense dialogue between light and color as they play out on the same wall and then experience the charge of energy from the interchange.