Marco Tirelli

On Thursday, May 5th 2016 at 7 pm Marco Tirelli’s solo exhibition opens, as the sixth and last event of the project that was conceived by Marcello Smarrelli to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Pastificio Cerere Foundation activity and the 110th anniversary of the construction of the building in which it is housed. The exhibition will be opened to the public from May 6th to July 22nd, 2016.

Ten years after it was established the Fondazione pays tribute – through a six-exhibition cycle – to the main characters of the artistic and creative agitation that is still enlivening the former pasta factory cultural life: Ceccobelli, Dessì, Gallo, Nunzio, Pizzi Cannella and Tirelli. These six artists, also known as the “San Lorenzo Group”, were the first to acknowledge this abandoned industrial area potentials, and decided to move their ateliers there since the Seventies. Thanks to them, Pastificio Cerere became the place for contemporary art production and international disclosing. They still contribute to artists new generation training. 
While designing the exhibitions, no exact idea was given: everyone was free to invent and build a path throughout their own history, their personal inspirations and their sign universe.

To tell his poetry, Marco Tirelli often recalls Federico Da Montefeltro’s Renaissance atelier. Here, collecting the objects populating the small room is a chance to shape the Duke of Urbino’s interior world. On the walls there are items of his cultural universe and memory. Every object belongs to a symbolic system whose active reality recalls imaginary echoes.
The exhibit that Tirelli conceived for the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere areas conceptually evokes the Studiolo. To the artist, the former industrial building is a personal and collective memory place, where he can create a complex imaginary territory, by dialoguing with the space. Such territory is made up of material elements that allow to overcoming the walls physical dimension. Heterogeneous shapes materialize in the space, which recalls a mirror trick ranging from what is endlessly big to what is endlessly small, from light to dark, from the visible to the invisible, and invites us to see beyond the things boundaries. According to the Durer’s ‘perspicere’ (‘to clearly see’ in Latin) concept, which states that painting is a tool to see beyond the reality, the exhibition space becomes a mental space, thanks to images that are open thresholds to what is possible. A Memory Theatre, as Tirelli loves defining his work, which is a visionary exercise aimed at cancelling any space and time coordinate. The artist dialogues with space and with the single connected items to reach a multi-faceted work environmental dimension. On the wall there is a collection of gashes to other dimensions, the corporeal reality becomes immaterial and psychic. As writer Valerio Magrelli noticed, Tirelli’s works are “optical engines that were conceived to learn to see.” The exhibition is the ideal background for his walking across the World.

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