Impronte began in 2020 as a retrospective exhibition of Remo Rachini, held at the Basilica of San Celso.
From 2021, on the occasion of its second edition, Impronte has turned into an art container in which Rachini's works interact with music and literature.
Each year, as head of the exhibitions section, Remo Rachini will propose a theme around which create a moment of cultural reflection that will give the opportunity to other artists to exhibit their works.
IMPRONTE 2022 >
10-20 Ottobre 2022 - Basilica di San Celso
Corso Italia 37, Milano
"Le opere [in mostra] proprio per la loro intrinseca forza semantica e per l’immediatezza della percezione visiva, tattile e variegata che il medium ceramico riesce a comunicare, hanno svelato sottili rimandi tra di loro. Si tratta di opere che, pur nell’individualità dei toni, delle cromie e dei sottotoni, inanellano una composizione fluida, via via più potente e decisa e, infine, acuta, che a mano a mano si rafforza della rarefatta atmosfera dell’antica chiesa, la cui architettura apparentemente semplice, ma innervata di una forza compositiva propria, adamantina, logica, diviene un detonatore per le reazioni visive e concettuali del visitatore. Esiste dunque un elemento comune tra queste opere così diverse, ma allo stesso tempo così affini [...] e ciò riguarda un’accezione del sentire, per non voler parlare propriamente di un sentimento, che sembra palesarsi in queste opere che si ergono verticalmente, che giacciono come abbandonate, che occhieggiano dalle pareti: il sentire di un’attesa, di qualche cosa che è accaduto e che trasformandosi aspira ad un senso nuovo, ad una vita nuova. Ciò lega l’attesa, inevitabilmente, alla speranza, ma anche questa non intesa come una pura e generica aspettativa spirituale, ma come una scelta consapevole, razionale, direi illuminista per un vero cambiamento di visione e di approccio alle questioni attuali. Gli artisti questo fanno, guardano la realtà con altri occhi, intuiscono valori e significati delle cose, li combinano con le loro esperienze e le loro sensibilità e ci forniscono, attraverso le opere, una sostanziale risemantizzazione del pensiero di partenza combinando, innestando, sovrapponendo [...]".
Valerio Terraroli
IMPRONTE 2021 >
11-23 October 2021 - Basilica di San Celso
Corso Italia 37, Milano
"Grass, leaves, flowers, tree bark are the subjects of the works on display here. A way of conversing with Nature, thus capturing the least striking aspects of a plant world that surrounds and shares our everyday lives. Remo Rachini’s and Anna Roberti’s research have in common not only an attention to detail and a curiosity for these existences that are different from our own, they also pursue their experimentation with expressive techniques that converge in fixing on paper and on very thin tissues the impressions of those very same existences, those very same stories This is why I harken back to Lucretius’ De rerum natura when describing an exhibition that intends to offer the visitor a sort of two-fold approach to the natural world that exudes the flavour of journeys, but that are actually domestic itineraries, memories of late summer, of the search for the meaning, at times even classificatory, of a variety of signs and forms that dot our visual field even in the city streets, between train tracks, along sidewalks, in an urban park, amidst uncultivated fields and ruins. Rachini and Roberti suggest a two-fold path, which is also a call for personal responsibility and a spurring of action so that others become aware of the reality via testimonies and minute signs."
Valerio Terraroli
IMPRONTE 2020 >
15-29 September 2020 - Basilica di San Celso
Corso Italia 37, Milano
"The echo of the “dead seasons”, of the lives lived, the sense of time and Nature's perpetual regeneration can be recognized in the works that Remo Rachini has created on the theme of trees since 2015. Tree trunks that have been torn down or have died of old age that, unexpectedly, reveal a precious and complex interior made up of an interweaving of blue glass bottle shards.
In the works Tronco 1 and Tronco 2 the aim is to keep the organic nature of the plant intact, emphasized in the contrast between the knotty wood and the mosaic of glass shards, while in the more recent Impronte corticali (2019), produced with the frottage technique, the choice has become more exquisitely conceptual, aimed at capturing and fixing the traces of life, the individual stories that interacted with those trees or which the trees are the silent witnesses to.
The artist's Impronte corticali, to those who look at them with curiosity and attention, do not just reveal a geometric flow chart or the sharing with any living creature of structures regulated by a system of balances and proportions, but also the signs of human stories and sentiments.
What Rachini offers us is only apparently a game of combinations, a skilful execution. The truth is that each of his works is a precise analysis of natural laws, a rethinking of the meaning of things."
Valerio Terraroli