an exhibition by Riccarco Dalisi
set-up by Sun Yanwen, Wang Huakun, Zou Yangxuan, Tong Zixuan, Chen Zewen
inauguration on June 21 H 19.30
THE EXHIBITION CAN ONLY BE VISITED BY THE PUBLIC OF THE SHOWS ON DAY (SPORTOPERA SECTION) OPENING H 20.30
The first time I saw Riccardo Dalisi at work was last year. He was comfortably seated next to the panorama, already framed by a sculpture of his own, which was still shining and never standing outside his balcony. He drew with the serene and suspended charm of a very colorful baby spirals. Vortexes and whirlwinds that had nothing dark and sad, but shamelessly declared dynamics and chromaticisms quick and playful. They recalled the highest and most free meaning of the game as the windy screams. A sense of the game that I immediately multiplied under the eyes in passing between the endless metal totems that crowded his studio. Among the many, many silent (but not much) figures have presented themselves more arrogant and provocative before me the athletes-coffee maker. The jumper, the swimmer, the goalkeeper, all imagined in unexpectedly plastic poses, given the origin and the ferrous features of their bodies. Their impulses, their efforts, their technical poses seemed to be the product, as natural as it was impossible, of an animation inspired by an enigmatic dimension of desire. And then here is Riccardo’s unveiled desire. A descent from the sky of angels-coffee pot motivated solely by the reasons of the game and in particular the game of football. The “reasons” of such a singular desire were to be indulged and represented. So here are the angels, here are their unpredictable trajectories, the trajectories of improbable yet credible athletes and those of their bows, their rods, their balloons, those of water splashes and tin of an imaginary crawl. Here, in short, childish and solemn their “celestial game”. (Claudio Di Palma)
