Acheropita is the cryptic title of Fabrizio Cotognini's solo exhibition which concludes Cambi di strada, the cycle of exhibitions curated by Umberto Palestini and hosted in the K Space of the National Gallery of the Marche. The event, already reported by significant Italian magazines, assumes particular importance as it represents the first solo show of the artist from the Marches after the very recent victory of the 19th Cairo prize, delivered in the prestigious setting of Palazzo Reale in Milan.

Cotognini's research is mainly linked to a contemporary reinterpretation of the cultural heritage of classical art, through the instrument of drawing with which the artist creates singular and fascinating iconographic combinations.

Umberto Palestini, in the introduction to his work, writes that «the author becomes a sort of shaman who mixes emblematic visual elements of an artistic past that has entered the imagination, inventing a personal archeology in which the ancient is completely deconstructed. In this process the quotation is denied with its sterile nostalgic baggage, while on the horizon Cotognini reveals the singular coordinates of a suggestive alchemical conception.

Arriving in the Ducal Palace of Urbino, Cotognini could not miss the extraordinary opportunity to confront a famous author such as Paolo Uccello, and one of his capital works: the Miracle of the profaned Host. Two sculptures evoke the Jewish spouses who had purchased the host and will be tragically executed together with their children. To evoke the predella, which has a narrative and formal trend very dear to the artist, he chooses, with a conceptual difference, two three-dimensional works paying homage to one of the great masters of perspective in the history of art. In the outline, a series of display cases host a sequence of drawings, graphic assemblies, sketches on acetates superimposed on images. A poetic process built on linguistic contaminations, but also on pure and rigorous drawings of admirable workmanship, testifying to the precious research of a cultured author, bewitched by the ancient, but capable of revitalizing it by making it re-emerge from oblivion ».