Franco Guerzoni's Poetics of Rupture at Monitor Gallery

Monitor Gallery in Rome is hosting a solo exhibition of Franco Guerzoni (Modena, 1948), a conceptual photographer whose work explores the aesthetics of tears, wounds, and ruins as organic abstract cohesion. Guerzoni treats gaps as interchangeable with fullness, using stratigraphy as both aesthetic and ontological research to surface reverberations of a missing image. Like an archaeologist, he confronts peeled walls, pagan shrines, and detached Pompeian frescoes, adopting the meticulous manual techniques of a restorer. Color remains, hinting at heterogeneous, indecipherable past forms. Stains spread on ivory like expansions of humors, calcareous concretions, and blue-red patches of crystallized mold. Shading becomes inseparable accidents-incidents with plaster dust. The exhibition runs through 2017 at Monitor Gallery, Rome.