The Reflected Weaves reveal the necessary and inescapable vital impetus intrinsic to each movement and change of condition.
The show dedicated to Davide Nido (Senago, Milan 1966) and Robert Pan (Bolzano, 1969) is undergoing a transformation from virtual dimension to artistic reality: after the important exhibition which took place at the Venice School of Merchants of the Madonna dell’Orto, it is now hosted by the Emmeotto Gallery in Rome.
“Difference in similarity” might be the right formula to describe the meeting between these two artists. They have a different culture, received a different education and come from different places: accordingly, they developed different personalities and adopted different techniques and artistic images. Yet, this exhibition is the occasion for an interaction which does affect matter, but pushes itself beyond the weaves of silence as well.
Pigments, glues, resins are sapiently and chemically treated and processed, turning into dynamic elements and propagating as the endless shapes and images which constitute the actual exhibition.
Davide Nido moulds synthetic networks with a special thermal gun which melts the silicon glues and spreads them over the canvases, so as to orient, dilate or shrink them to small concentric circles, flattening or piling (and thus stratifying) them.
Artificial matter plays a prominent role in Robert Pan's works, too. Here, hybrids between painting and sculpture emerge after an accurate and factitious analytical operation: layers of glues, pigments and resins are constantly laid on metallic nets, and some operations (layering and overlapping) are alternated with others (polishing and corrosion by acids or fire).