GRUPPO EUROMOBIL AND ART | Guidi - Tancredi. Un nodo invisibile
The exhibition stems from a critical question that is as evocative as it is complex: what profound connection unites two artists who appear to be worlds apart in terms of artistic language, sensibility and vision? From this question emerges the subtitle ‘An invisible bond’, which alludes to an underlying, almost unconscious link capable of transcending the stylistic and generational differences between the two masters. Whilst Guidi’s painting appears to be founded on a lyrical balance between light, form, colour and space, Tancredi’s work manifests itself instead as a field of inner tensions, a visual and chromatic language permeated by unease, fragmentation and an existential drive. Two distant universes which nevertheless seem to touch one another at a deeper level, within the folds of art history and modern consciousness.
The exhibition unfolds as a close comparison between two different concepts of painting and reality. On the one hand, Guidi, the figure at the centre of a body of work that spans the twentieth century whilst maintaining a firm connection with Italian tradition, Venetian light and a poetic vision of space; on the other, Tancredi, a restless and visionary artist, supported by Peggy Guggenheim and closely associated with the Spatialist movement, capable of transforming line and colour into tools of radical introspection.
Curator Italo Tomassoni explains: ‘The dialogue between the two artists can be interpreted through the metaphor of the “Borromean Knot” developed by Jacques Lacan: an interweaving of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary that becomes a key to accessing the depths of being and artistic creation. In Guidi’s work, this structure is harmoniously organised within a synthesis of light, form, colour and space; in Tancredi’s, however, it contracts until it transforms into an extreme psychological tension, in a style of painting that captures the drama of existence and the instability of contemporary consciousness.”