Casa (2014/2019) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
Manuela Bedeschi and Tiziano Bellomi dialogue using words and numbers, thoughts and concepts which their works are a physical materialization of.
Plus Red (2011) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
Plus Red (Più Rosso) and Plus Orange (Più Arancio) by Manuela Bedeschi are monochrome canvases backlit by neon light.
Plus Orange (2011) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
The latter element ensures that the boundaries of the picture dematerialize, and, leaving their purely pictorial borders, painting takes on a spatial dimension.
Think (2018) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
The light finds the word and from the union of light and word Manuela Bedeschi creates a series of works that are warnings, messages for the viewer, invitations addressed to contemporary man "who must stop and reflect".
The first of these tips is "Think". Repeated several times, in different places of Villa degli Ippoliti, with different colors and through different materials.
Listen (2018) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
Think is accompanied by Listen...
Look (2018) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
...and look. They all are. "Advice for an ethics of respect for the planet"
Small House Light Blue (2015) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
And finally, almost as a destination and a starting point at the same time, there is Small Light Blue House, a neon and Plexiglas work in which the word represented is Casa.
Place Older Title (2020) by Manuela BedeschiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
A complex word that for Manuela Bedeschi is "it is a summary of memories, of tales even of secrets at times, this word is part of my continuous journey".
Meridians (2019) by Tiziano BellomiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
The house is a place, and it is precisely to the places that Tiziano Bellomi's works refer, staging the possibility of a journey, primarily conceptual, in which the concept of place is being investigated.
City Names (2018/2019) by Tiziano BellomiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
City Names, for example, is an installation by Tiziano Bellomi, consisting of small canvases each bearing the name of a city.
Meridians (2019) by Tiziano BellomiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
Also the serial work Meridians, alludes to the idea of the place, in its conceptual component, as a portion of space defined numerically by vertical and horizontal coordinates.
Meridians (2019) by Tiziano BellomiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
In this way, Tiziano Bellomi combines the words of Manuela Bedeschi with numbers, first in an abstract way with the Meridiani series, and City Names
Numerary Stone 118 (2020) by Tiziano BellomiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
And then more explicitly thanks to the Numerary Stones series. A series of stones on whose surfaces a number is carved. Tiziano has stated, “My numbering implies a chronological process, a before and an after, a precedent and a consequence, an inevitable operation of dating and cataloging.
Numerary Stone 125 (2020) by Tiziano BellomiMuseo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano
The Numbered Stone is the ideal trace of a simple and perfect conceptual action, one that refers back to all the artist’s previous attempts to discover and redraw the world and to appropriate it for himself. So the artist chooses this way for reflecting his questions and posing them to the public: what is art? How is an everyday and common object like a stone transformed into a work with an aesthetic content? Who decides if something is art?
