Francesco Carone's 'Disinganno' at Spazio A, Pistoia

Francesco Carone (Siena, 1975) presents 'Disinganno' at Spazio A in Pistoia, an exhibition exploring time's distortion of faces and human actions, creating misunderstandings and distances. Through imagery of masks, idols, and vegetal nets, Carone traces paths and passages in space and time. The show offers no explanations or discriminations, only distances, shadows, and duplicities. A deliberate coldness in the seemingly dispersive installation reproduces a 'map' of solitudes and failed attempts at connection, encapsulated by the title 'Disinganno' (Disenchantment). The exhibition is described as a 'vast sea' that closes dantesquely over the visitor, enveloping and dragging them down without hope—a difficult, cryptic, painful experience. The review is by Niccolò Lucarelli, a curator, critic, and essayist.