Mariella Bettineschi & Marco Bettoni
10.07.04.04-15.08.04
Private View: 09 July 2004, 7.00-9.00 pm
Crossing brings together work by Marco Bettoni and Mariella Bettineschi. This exhibition was proposed by the two artists who have been in dialogue for many years.
In both their work there is a common interest in the investigation of light where the light crosses the boundary between elucidator (that which illuminates) and subject (that which is shown). Both works in Crossing have a symmetry which comes from the use of the sphere in Bettineschi's case and mirroring which Bettoni seeks to capture in many of his photographs. Bettoni's work is a meditation on a place while Bettineschi's is a meditation on a form. Writing about Bettoni's work Stella Santacatterina offers us her own meditation;
"The work offers movement and repose... And it is there, suspended in a moment of
time, that the work is absorbed in the expectation of the creation of a place
where a human being may dwell poetically. The forms immersed in a play of light
and shade express the idea of quietness. It sets itself up as the horizon, as a
screen that alludes to a potential space. It is an apparition which gives
to things without a name the property of form and to the image a language with
which it may recount it's own shadows."
The artists have produced a catalogue and have commissioned texts by Laura Jane Culpan and Stella Santatcatterina. The catalogue will be available from Platform for the duration of the exhibition.
For further information please call Sheila Lawson on 020 7375 2973.
