Marco Tirelli's Enigmatic Geometries at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere

Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome presents 'Marco Tirelli – Per i dieci anni della Fondazione Pastificio Cerere,' curated by Marcello Smarrelli, from June to July 22, 2016. The exhibition is part of a cycle dedicated to major artists of the Scuola di San Lorenzo. Tirelli, born in Rome in 1956, explores the enigma of vision through exact yet unstable forms, using a severe syntax of geometries in whites, blacks, grays, and soft pinks. The main hall features five oversized dark discs that act as magnetic black holes, seemingly pushing the space inward and threatening to implode it. Smaller graphic or three-dimensional abstractions emerge on the discs' surfaces, blurring the boundaries between painting, drawing, and sculpture. A first room is saturated with dense sequences of drawings in black and white, depicting skewed lines, circles, and diagonals that reference urban views, domestic interiors, tables, ceilings, and facades. The works balance rigor with intimate emotion, revealing essence through common objects and traces of imperfection.