Rolled Up

The cover of this catalogue speaks for itself, and images, it is well known, reach everyone with an extraordinary impact, they are the real universal language, which we experience everyday in out hectic contemporaneity. It would seem that the protagonist of this exhibition, with the rather unusual title, is the famous bubble wrap. It would seem that it is the wrapping and not the contents, which has won and beaten all concepts and themes. Instead of the contents, with a complete reversal, this time, it is the vehicle, the container which has stolen the show and has become the subject on which to reflect and intervene. Rolled up, wrapped up, wound round, like a scroll from which to proclaim truths, stories, announcements. Like a precious and airy film, a skin which protects. An inviting and protective bubble wrap with which to enfold one’s work, yet also the idea of unrolling, of opening up to the new experience of verifying ideas, shapes and projects. The idea of Rolled up as a title came up rather as a game. On thinking of the very way in which the works could be sent. To tell the truth, we are all fascinated and excited by the prospect of exhibiting on the Asian continent, in the great Beijing, so rich in history and culture. To whoever lends great importance to contents, we can say that the title may also refer not only to the way of packaging the works. The concept of Rolled up concerns everything which in nature has to do with shapes which curl up, of which there are all sorts, from the animal to the plants world, because here functionality and form are never disconnected, rather are the work of a perfect creative intelligence which we may only admire, respect and love. Spiral shapes, circular shapes, the idea of content and container, of module, of open and closed space, of compressed energy and freed energy, of kundalini, of snakes are a symbol of the Earth’s energy. Of course, the artists could only roll up suitable materials, excluding the heavier ones, in fact, paper and canvas were used. This fact has conditioned the artists’ research, yet it has rendered the whole of the exhibition elastic and pliable.

Beijing, China, are the new reality which involves us all in an exchange and which cannot be of purely economic nature, but a real interaction which embraces all experiences and this permits planetary human sensitivity to evolve.