Massimo Catalani

Bright Moon

Bright Moon
An interactive work explores the moon through pigments that shift with light, creating a silent dialogue between the viewer’s perception and the passage of time
25 Feb-22 Mar 2013
Vernissage
Monday 25 Feb 2013 18:30-23:00
Spazio Menexa
Via di Montoro, 3 - 00186 Roma
Artists
Massimo Catalani
Massimo Catalani

The second part of the exhibition opens on February 25, 2013, at 6:30 PM with the work of Roman artist Massimo Catalani, "Bright Moon," a multiple-panel painting in which several boards create a single image made with special pigments that react to light and its changes by altering their colors. The moon is thus painted through its light, a nocturnal sun offering an alternative vision of things and allowing them to be experienced in an intimate and perfect dimension. The work is interactive because, like us, it changes appearance and mood depending on circumstances, shifting from day to night, as if following ideal lunar phases. Through this visual mobility, Catalani recreates an atmosphere, an idea of the moon, a sort of magical window opening onto our hidden perceptions, playing with the absence of light to find, in a silent dialogue between what is missing and what we have, a piece of ourselves. It will be impossible for viewers, caught in the disorientation of time that brings an eternal moment, not to wonder what this sliver of the moon is doing, investigating our soul while we investigate its own, each witness to the other.