ExhibitionsGianfranco Tognarelli – Incisioni 1970-2017

21 febbraio 2018.

Gianfranco Tognarelli
ENGRAVINGS 1970-2017
Thursday 15 February, 6.00 pm
43 etchings by the Pontaderese artist.

At the Il Bisonte Foundation Gallery, via San Niccolò 24 / rosso, Florence.
opening hours: 9.00 – 13.00 and 15.00 – 19.00.
Closed on Saturday and Sunday.
The exhibition will remain open until March 16, 2018.
for information
telephone: 055 2342585
email: gallery@ilbisonte.it

Extract from the introductory text by Nicola Micieli in the catalog present in the gallery:
“… in addition to the technical acquisitions also of the apprenticeship in the Academy, Tognarelli was trained in the language and I would say in the expressive character of engraving, a truly rigorous and selective medium that does not allow for technical approximations and little concedes to even whimsical improvisations. effects, above all because he was interested in experimenting with the typology, morphology and multiple combinations of the sign, even in the scores of more declared adherence to reality Tognarelli investigated and underlined the underlying structures and dynamics within the natural and anthropic landscape chosen …

… The synaesthesia established with the sound translation of a visual form seems to me to express well the type of intuitive and poetic knowledge of reality, which Tognarelli now accesses with the analytical instrument of engraving, having distracted his gaze from appearances sensitive to tune it with the motions of the soul aroused by the latent and unpredictable image that the wise hand is slowly subtracting from the original chaos of the signs …. “