Gen X – A painting path for light divers

Gen X is a group exhibition combining international artists born in between the Sixties and the Seventies. Their works are displayed within the spaces of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of the Republic of San Marino. Pierpaolo Campanini, Kaye Donachie, Sophie Von Hellermann, Paul Housley, and Victor Man elaborate the apathetic decade of the Nineties by scanning, in a delicate and proactive manner, the introspective inurement marked not just by artists, born in an individual and generalized isolation.

For each artist three major works are exhibited. There is the obvious choice to bring the viewer to the sense of the fine line between fantasy and reality, to reverse the time of the story with that of memory, up to confuse the futile with spontaneity.

The exhibition works as sociological observation of historically contextualized painting, and creates a showcase of exception on that thread path where the artist often reinvents time, remaining free from geographic coordinates, without losing their sense of orientation.

The group of light divers of globalization also shows the generation of a movement that acts by integrating the sensorial aspect with the mental one. By being immersed in the show, the viewer experiences a significantly tenuous and immanent nature, that codifies and replaces the quality of being non-exact of contemporary figurative painting, whether it is the portrait of a person, a still life, an architecture, or a mask .

Has the X Generation marked the choice, which is perhaps inevitable, to interpret shapes, cromatism and subjects as a statement vaguely recognizable, but not replicable?

Pierpaolo Campanini, Kaye Donachie, Sophie Von Hellermann, Paul Housley, Victor Man, Gen X, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi at Museo San Francesco, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Repubblica di San Marino through 12 January 2014