From February 26th to May 8th 2022, the halls of the MA * GA in Gallarate (VA) host Untitled, the solo show by Michele Lombardelli (Cremona, 1968). 

Starting from the pictorial works of recent years, the exhibition intertwines the different languages experimented by the artist, highlighting how Lombardelli's interest, research and lateral thinking move at the same time towards painting as a sign , the photographic image as text , the book as an object of investigation, and sound as a subject for exploration and a dimension devoid of measures and boundaries.

At the MA * GA you will find a series of recent paintings, based on rigorous chromatic and geometric variations that do not exclude the unexpected and, at the same time, reformulate the idea of abstraction, dissolving any referential connection with the representability of reality.

In Lombardelli's poetics, the pictorial works, as well as the photographs and sound and musical projects move away from the idea of synthesis or referentiality of the sign and image to give space to the mute and at the same time sonorous presence of the signifier. Each work stands as a fragment and element of an intentionally never concluded aesthetic discourse. For Lombardelli the work seems to be a sign in which meaning and signifier exchange and rotate in a continuous mobility, a dimension in which center and origin are absent and the logic of causality subverted.

Whenever poetics is defined in a form, be it plastic, visual or sound, it is never definitively fixed and becomes part of an open, dynamic system of continuous correlations and references between the investigated paths, the experimented languages and the different formal outcomes achieved. Lombardelli's work, extremely free in the choice of expressive means (painting, photography, drawing, screen printing, sound) and supports (canvas / board, paper, carpet, ceramic, vinyl) is characterized by an environmental vocation and an expansive quality in which a constant and subtle tension flows between balance and precariousness, disorder and control: elements of an even tighter dialectic when the artist performs the sound.