In Galleria Ca’ d’Oro’s new home in New York, director Gloria Porcella opens on December 18^th a new exhibition dedicated to two Italian artists: the sculptor, painter and writer Alfredo Rapetti Mogol and the photographer Federico Comelli Ferrari. This is a unique opportunity to admire the two artists’ works, which combine painting and writing (Rapetti) and photography with painting (Comelli Ferrari). Stitching is the particular technique used by Rapetti, where signs, graffiti and traces of human awareness are impressed on canvas. His works are reflected on large pages full of writing seemingly illogical, but actually full of conceptual, anthropological and aesthetic, references. Rapetti translates words into images, and interprets them as a form of thought and memory. Critics define Comelli Ferrari as cubist by the manner he deconstructs, reconstructs, reinvents and colors. He photographs with a 360° perspective, monuments, squares, and representative buildings of important cities such as Milan, Shanghai, Chicago and many other, then he breaks down the pictures and recomposes them by coloring them with acrylics and creating new and original points of view. His works are an evolution of reportage photography and the symbols that appear are an element of protest, such as in the sculpture “the knot” – set in Milan’s subway station at Piazza Cadorna, where a long wire is intersected by a sewing needle. The interpretation of Comelli Ferrari of this sculpture is the capacity of disassemble and reassemble life. His projects are designed to give a new meaning to what surrounds us, bringing Marcel Proust’s words to reality: “The real discovery journey consists in seeking not new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

WORKS BY FEDERICO COMELLI FERRARI

WORKS BY ALFREDO RAPETTI MOGOL