Lorenzo Puglisi from Bologna
Your new daily ritual ...
It is the same as before, but without trips for work or various displacements; and with my two children always at home. On the one hand, a great relaxation in the newfound calm of a suspended newspaper, immobile; on the other, the right commitment to be a father and therefore the difficulty in remaining available to one's children: for those who live it and know it, children are a big commitment, wonderful and opportunity for growth, but which requires a lot and makes you discover inadequate ...
How your way of working has changed?
It is closer to an action that does not take into account the purpose ... With four exhibitions postponed between now and May, it can only be so, and I felt the difficulty of working without an external stimulus in the first few weeks.
We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
There is the possibility of perceiving the silence around me well, silence that in "normal" times was almost always covered by the frenetic human action, action of other people and mine too, and above all covered by the incessant noise of my thoughts. More than a new space and time, I would say space and time ... And the realistic comparison with the partial uselessness of human action, I think it's a great chance to see things for what they are, temporary.
What you're missing? Your personal experience of "absence" and "lack".
I miss what has always been missing in me, a stability, a centrality from which to live and look at the world, that quality that in moments it is given to rediscover in life, and, sometimes, in painting… But I repeat that in this extraordinary situation, there is a real opportunity to find these moments more often, which are all that really matters.
Museums and galleries have reacted to the moment with digitalization and virtuality. What are your "strategies" for establishing new relationships?
They are very many, for example answering questions in an interview ...
How do you imagine the world, when everything will start again?
Exactly as it was, in a few years no one will remember all this anymore ...
Lorenzo Puglisi (Biella, 1971) lives and works in Bologna. He is the author of a pictorial research that is characterized by the widespread use of black that creates a background of absolute darkness, from which gushes of light are released, capable of defining volumes, the faces, parts of the body, as presences captured in an expression or gesture, the result of a journey towards the essentiality of representation and full of references to the history of oil painting. In recent years his artistic research has focused on painting in the most classical sense, with large canvases referring to works of the past and filtered by his iconography.
Numerous personal exhibitions and participations in collective exhibitions in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad, between these, the MUDEC of Milan, the CAC La Traverse in Paris, The Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples, The Historical Museum a Brema, the Bramante Sacristy in Milan, the Crypt of King's Cross St. Pancras in London. Future projects include an exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga in Latvia in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. Its reference galleries are Studio Guastalla Modern and Contemporary Art, Milan; Cris Contini Contemporary, London; Bianchi Zardin Contemporary Art, Milan; Sobering Galerie, Paris.
www.lorenzopuglisi.com