From the leaves, in the hundreds of thousands of years preceding its advent, the human being has learned to extract medicines, nourishment, pigment, wraps, and writing and reading supports. Specialists have revealed that thanks to them, custodians of the chlorophyll treasure, we can breathe on this planet. They are a laboratory of light and of inexhaustible, salvific transformation: they absorb carbon dioxide, they give us back oxygen. But despite all this, we don't see the leaves, we don't really notice them. They are indistinctly green, indistinctly they turn yellow in autumn: and with what grace, that knowing how to leave; what strength in doing it without a thank you, in a flight leave, in a soundless landing.

Annalisa Di Meo , on the other hand, was aware of it: this artist-architect worked with leaves, for leaves, when she ran the risk of appealing to neo-Liberty decorativism. It was enough to look, it was enough to notice to feel, to feel that his gentle obsession was anything but, that look bent over detail, the unseen and the neglected, the natural reinvention. Each work is a small fragrant discovery of essence, soul and structure. Watercolored and photographed, or taken from the meadows and wrapped in a second nature - a sheet of paper - which reveals a filigree presence, embroidered and almost evoked with arabesques of white string, its leaves build an act of care for what remains, which shows the disappearance of matter due to wear, drying, rotting, decrepitude, through a very thin skeleton of veins and capillaries, friable and risky fragments of membrane and petiole, at times. And one wonders, realizing what remains, if it is really appropriate to speak of fragility.

Annalisa Di Meo (born in Brescia in 1977) began her artistic training at the Liceo Artistico “M. Olivieri ”in Sarezzo (BS), where he graduated in 1995 with full marks. Subsequently he enrolled at the Politecnico di Milano where he graduated in Architecture in 2003; during his university studies he also obtained the qualification of Advertising Graphic Operator.

His research is characterized as an investigation into the potential of matter, object of assiduous experimentation, in the definition of refined formal and chromatic balancing acts, in which the forms of nature are recovered in a metaphorical key, to suggest the poetry inherent in apparently more simple and ordinary.

Since 2006 he has participated in exhibitions and competitions in Italy and abroad.

VERNISSAGE Thursday 19th May h. 17 - 20

Free admission