"WUT" painting on canvas 140x120
108 Guido Bisagni
Kaplan Gallery - Palma - Mallorca - Septiembre 2024
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“Autumn Equinox,” 108's new exhibition, offers a visual reflection on the cycle of nature and our often unconscious connection to it. The autumnal equinox marks a moment of perfect balance between light and dark, between the masculine and the feminine, an instant when day and night come into balance before the natural world begins its transition into shadow.
All the works presented in this exhibition are new, created between late spring and summer 2024. They are works that, while maintaining the artist's typical abstraction, evoke a sense of waiting, reflected in the colors and shapes used.
In these works, the bright red, which only appears in some details, contrasts with a more muted and desaturated color palette, dominated by shades of gray, white and black.
These colors, which for 108 evoke elegance, comfort and peace, reflect the autumnal transition, in which the vibrant tones of summer give way to a softer, more introspective chromatic delicacy.
The forms, though familiar in their essence, show a certain evolution in 108's works: some works are deliberately disjointed, reflecting the artist's restlessness and weariness, caused in part by the summer light and heat, but also by a recent injury. However, in the more recent works, they are somehow more compact and serene, a sign of a creative process in continuous transformation.
Black, an indispensable element in 108's work, continues to represent a fundamental pillar, a symbol of introspection and of that less visible and deeper part of the self. For the artist, this is the color that best conveys the strength and impact necessary to express the complexity of his artistic vision.
For 108, art is a form of expression that goes beyond the merely visual; it is a magical and spiritual act, deeply personal. His artistic creation is intimately linked to music, and to mathematics, with a creative process reminiscent of musical composition, where each brushstroke is a note, and each painting unfolds like a melody. This mixture of music and painting transforms each exhibition into a ritual, a celebration of natural cycles and the seasons, an attempt to bring modern man closer to those primordial forces from which he has unfortunately distanced himself.
With “Autumn Equinox”, 108 invites the viewer to immerse himself in a journey between light and shadow, between notes and colors, celebrating the perpetual cycle of life. It is an exhibition that is not only to be seen, but demands to be lived with all the senses, in an experience that awakens awareness of the deep bond that unites us to nature and its rhythms.
