PABLO MESA CAPELLA | ONEIRIC NATURE. THE MEMORY OF OBJECTS

The Emmeotto Gallery hosts the exhibition Oneiric Nature. The Memory of Objects, by young Spanish artist Pablo Mesa Capella. After a thorough and precious research that lasted for over one year, he presents, in the display areas of Palazzo Taverna, his fully accomplished project, revolving around the creation of imagined and imaginary microcosms inside glass bells.

The “vacuum-packed”, scenographical, three-dimensional architectural structures house objects of the past and heterogeneous materials which the artist assembles into a new dimension of evocative and oneiric landscapes. In these small universes, the protagonists of old pictures, isolated and deprived of their original context, come back to life and start to inhabit other worlds and other stories. It is the stolen moments of life that build memory and (his)tory – our own story or an invented, imagined one, subject to ever-changing interpretations, linked to our memories or to the fantasy of the observer.

From the subjective impression of the observer, the artist gets the idea of doing a catalogue, asking curators, critics and art historians to interpret the bells and their contents, assigning one bell to each of them – no matter if they had been following the project for long or were approaching it for the first time - and giving them a free hand. The result was a variegated jigsaw of translations, stories, emotional involvement between observers and artworks. The following artists enthusiastically joined the project and collaborated on its realisation: Elena, Abbiatici, Martina Adami, Rossella Alessandrucci, Maria Stella Bottai, Maila Buglioni, Lorenzo Canova, Carmen Capacchione, Alessia Carlino, Claudia Cavalieri, Giovanna Caterina de Feo, Giorgio de Finis, Linda de Sanctis, Lisa della Volpe, Eva di Tullio, Andrea Lezzi, Laura Maggi, Simona Merra, Paola Paleari, Francesco Rao, Elena Giulia Rossi, Edoardo Sassi, Marco Settembre, Clara Tosi Pamphili and Micol Veller Fornasa.

Not only a catalogue, but also an object enriched with the artist's personal intervention, which makes it unique and permeated with the topic of memory, leitmotif of Pablo Mesa Capella's artistic research.