Alessandro Albanese Gallery is pleased to announce Uroboros, a collective exhibition featuring
artworks by Vincenzo Rusciano, Kristian Sturi and Ivano Troisi. The exhibition, curated by Daniele
Capra, is the first step of a three-part project on the theme of change, the second will be hosted
by Nicola Pedana Gallery in Caserta. Uroboros presents a selection of works by the three artists
whose researches all originate in a strong inner speculation and have often taken on the themes
of mutation, metamorphosis and change of state. Traces of this reflection are laid down both in
the genesis of the creative/imaginative process that precedes the realization, as well as in the
ways in which the work takes shape and manifests itself in the world, developing through
germination, offshoots, unexpected leaps or sudden material changes. Since ancient times, the
uroboros, the symbolic animal in the shape of a snake or crocodile which bites its own tail, has
been used to symbolically represent the eternity and continuity of the cosmos, thanks to the
inexhaustible cycle of change due to the dynamic head -tail. But the snake that eats its tail is also
an emblem of the alternation of opposite conditions, such as death and rebirth, darkness and
light, the feminine and masculine, whose limits are continually generated and redefined.
Moreover, in alchemical thought, its image allegorically refers to the palingenesis and to the
repetition of the cycles that take place thanks to the increase of temperature, evaporation, cooling
and condensation of a liquid, which are used in the refining of substances.
Especially in the work of Vincenzo Rusciano, the transformation, the need for a mutation, is
evidenced by the use of the cast and of incomplete modeling, by the trace of a presence, a skin,
but also by the abandonment of volume towards other forms, which indicates a real detachment
from the origin and a real change of state.
Kristian Sturi's pieces put the spectator in the impossibility of a static and definitive vision, from
which to perceive/read surfaces: it is only by changing position, moving and observing, breaking
the unity of the gaze, that matter and volumes are manifested in the their totality, in a challenging
game where the same conditions never occur twice. The artworks by Ivano Troisi, on the other
hand, are traces of a change that took place, as they are recordings of a particular state of
metamorphosis, caught in its melancholic fragility, but also in its projective potential. His works
thus lead to a further evolution, in which the elements (natural or artificial) can be recombined
following the famous law, enunciated by Lavoisier, according to which "nothing is created and
nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed".

Uroboros
Vincenzo Rusciano, Kristian Sturi, Ivano Troisi
curated by Daniele Capra
Opening March 28th at 6:30 pm
March 29 - May 5 2019