Alessandro Lupi. Duemilaotto

The technique is undoubtedly fascinating. Hundreds of threads of polyamide painted with fluorescent pigments construct three-dimensional figures that emerge from the darkness only when illuminated by a Wood's lamp. Sitting on a chair, huddled inside trunks or floating in space, the bodies of Alessandro Lupi, mostly women and children, density are fluorescent, essential figures drawn from the dark and mysterious at the same time and in need of light, without which it could not exist. They live in a dimension somewhere between sculpture and painting, fluidity and immobility, reality and appearance.

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "two thousand" by Alessandro Lupi, at the gallery Guidi&Schoen Contemporary Art, Genoa (14 March – 12 April 2008).

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