BRUNO FANTELLI | Polveriera - Gott mit Unsinn

Charred, fleeing, whirling: the protagonists of the exhibition Polveriera – Gott mit Unsinn seem to want to take to their heels. Bruno Fantelli traps them in rapid snapshots, taking part in the challenge that sets the immediacy of the finished work against a slow and sensitive gestation. The figures, understood as experiential data, are bent and fused together, recounting the moment in which exact form disappears in favor of an impending nonsense. In this sense, the painterly action is conceived as an explosive charge, aimed at overturning the past of the exhibition environment and at highlighting the supremacy of creativity as a subversive act, ultimately adding a new meaning to an already significant list of historiographical definitions. Of particular relevance to the organization of the exhibition are the ultraviolet experiments, intended to make parts of the canvases shine (not literally!); this chemical-mechanical parody, related to the former destination of the gunpowder magazine and its stored materials, adds a new layer to the horizontal perception of the works, expanding their interpretative possibilities. The name of the exhibition, instead, reflects on one of the inscriptions present inside the building: “Gott mit uns,” “God with us,” the motto of the Kings of Prussia later used by the Nazi Third Reich. By reworking this original form, the title of the exhibition proposes to evoke within the space a wild, chaotic God, ready to bless nothing other than the absurdity portrayed by the artist. When confronted with the works, one often spontaneously wonders to what extent they resemble us, how much humanity may be present in their echo. In this case it is clear: it is we who resemble them, with all the fortunes and misfortunes that the metaphor implies.