Beatrice Meoni and Silvia Vendramel Explore Fragility at Galleria Passaggi in Pisa

Galleria Passaggi Arte Contemporanea in Pisa hosts 'Slittamenti e Margini', a two-person exhibition by Beatrice Meoni and Silvia Vendramel. The show draws inspiration from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 'The Fall of Icarus' (c. 1560) and the performances of Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared in the Atlantic in 1975. Meoni's paintings and collages, such as 'Inclinazioni' (oil on blue velvet), 'Forth' (oil on board), 'Apresludes' (collage of colored canvases), and 'Florentia' (porcelain shards reconstructing a pitcher), emphasize the liminal space where brushstrokes become forms and dissolve. Vendramel's sculptures, including 'Lei/Wisteria' (stones in a fence net with wisteria branches), 'Corale' (bronze casting scraps), 'No name' (a fork-shaped casting vent), and 'Lui' (woven wicker torso), explore materials in tension and states of transformation. The exhibition proposes cultivating 'unstable balances and lateral visions' as an alternative to muscular proclamations and purity anxiety. A key work, 'Failing Falling Failing' by Meoni, depicts Icarus with a brush attached to a stick on linen. The artists present Icarus as a benevolent antihero, symbolizing human fallibility. The show runs at Galleria Passaggi in Pisa.