Massimo Bartolini's 'Atlante Occidentale' at Magazzino, Rome

Massimo Bartolini (born 1962 in Cecina) returns to Magazzino gallery in Rome with a show titled 'Atlante Occidentale, Daniele Del Giudice, Einaudi Tascabili, 1998, pag. 78'. The exhibition centers on marginal notes—elements typically peripheral to main concepts. Bartolini explores the Bodhisattva, a Buddhist figure who renounces divinity to teach others, and the stylite, an ascetic hermit. He contrasts these two teachings: one based on invisible faith, the other on logic, often in imbalance. The installation draws on Daniele Del Giudice's book, with the key phrase: 'Not needing to tell is the only thing that cracks the happiness of seeing beyond form.' The works are presented in a rarefied aesthetic, neither explicit nor didactic, embodying a 'presence/absence, between the physical and the metaphorical.'