Solo exhibit (NO)FLOWERS IN THE CITY by Paola Giordano

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, 6 p.m.- 9 p.m., at Ethicando Gallery in Milan (www.ethicando.it), solo exhibition by Paola Giordano entitled (NO)FLOWERS IN THE CITY, curated by art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, opens.

The initiative, which is media supported by Betting On Italy (BOI) and Estro Digitale, runs until March 2, 2025. It consists of an exhibition of various paintings on canvas and paper, mostly related to the most recent production by the artist.

“The narrative of the urban social context - comments curator Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico - constitutes pictorial intent by Paola Giordano even in her most recent artistic production. Her flowers, deformed by the chaos of invisible forces, undergo an increasingly disturbing modulation , emerging a vision of contemporary society progressively darker and hostile to a rebirth that the artist seems unable and unwilling to exclude. Giordano's existential drama does not find a static solution, but rather foundering in the hope of a future salvation, contradicted by a contemporary 'evil' oblivious to humanity's past experiences. Recalling a phrase from a letter by Kafka to Max Brod, what matters is not the visible, but rather to detect the diabolical powers of the future knocking at the door, which, in a sense, are already hic et nunc, though not visible. Flowers by Giordano emerge from a creative de-formation in which those invisible 'devilish powers' are averted in their prospective operation; they constitute, in short, a sort of saving arm from the quicksand of the miseries of contemporary society, dominated by the vacuity of digital hyper-communication aimed at the exclusive reception of consent (like/don't like), as Byung-Chul Han would say, as well as by selfishness and overpowering that are unfortunately timeless in human history”.

During the opening, the book entitled PAOLA GIORDANO. METROPOLITAN SUGGESTIONS BETWEEN LIFE AND ART (Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, Milan, Ethicando Editore, 2019) is presented.

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