Matèria is pleased to continue its Vitrine program with a presentation dedicated to the artist Eugenia Vanni (Siena, 1980), in collaboration with Galleria Fuoricampo (Siena).

 Conceived as an initiative parallel to the gallery’s main exhibition program and visible from the street during opening hours, the gallery Vitrine operates as a device for direct engagement between artistic research and the urban context of San Lorenzo.

 The staging of the pictorial process, the painting understood as a material object and the attempt to reactivate passages often taken for granted, constitute the core of Eugenia Vanni’s research. In her most recent production, an increasing attention to process and pictorial space emerges, approached through a conceptual framework that questions some of the assumptions of painting and its techniques, inviting reflection on the act of painting itself.

 The work presented belongs to the recent series Alius et idem (from the Latin “different yet the same”), in which the artist deepens her reflection on the relationship between subject and support. The depicted drapery coincides with the support of the work itself  - a piece of colored fabric whose weave is evoked through transparencies and glazes.

 In Alius et idem. Stesa in controluce, however, the drapery is not strictly represented; rather, it appears as an empty space within the painting. The stretcher, more evoked than visible, becomes a hypothetical thread on which the fabric seems to hang, awaiting its use. The result is a subtle interplay of light and reflections that constructs an imaginary space - a painted linen canvas in which presence and absence intertwine.

 The Alius et idem series thus expands the relationship between support and painting, developing a tension between material and image that dissolves the boundaries between representation and the physical reality of the work. What emerges is a subject that is at once unified and multiple, where identity and difference coexist.

*With thanks to Fuoricampo (Siena) for their support and collaboration.