About forty works, including paintings, woodcuts, watercolours and large polyptych installations, documenting the most recent developments in Marina Bindella's research.
The exhibition title refers to an expanding universe of images, in which the "cosmographies" are not simple representations of the cosmos but inner maps of processes in becoming: aggregations, rarefactions, textures, orbits and vibrations that seem to explore the passage from a primordial, formless and undifferentiated matter to a reality that comes to life through invisible relationships among all elements.
Although cosmic themes have always been present in the artist's visual imagination, in recent years Bindella has moved toward the exploration of realities imperceptible to the senses: from the subatomic dimension of quantum mechanics to the sidereal immensity explored by astrophysical research. Today the artist reflects both on the philosophy of Anassimandro and on the concept of àpeiron ("the boundless"), as well as on the theories of quantum mechanics developed by two protagonists of twentieth-century physics, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger. As the curator, Ilaria Schiaffini, professor of Contemporary Art History at Sapienza Università di Roma, observes, "light and time are the two guiding threads of the works gathered in this exhibition", in which the image appears as a fragment of a broader process of aggregation and dispersal of matter.
The exhibition also highlights Marina Bindella's transversal working method, capable of moving across different languages and materials: from woodcut, the original imprint of her path, to watercolour, from painting to graffito, up to the use of supports such as corrugated cardboard and unusual matrices, such as nets and modular surfaces. Thanks to these new procedures, the layers of the image cannot be precisely located, and light is no longer clearly distinguishable from dark areas, but is incorporated into the matter itself.
Grounded in the investigation of the mark as a generative principle of form, light and space, the exhibition presents works made from 2020 to the present, alongside some significant forays into earlier periods. The itinerary moves through series and thematic groups linked to the origins of matter, the structure of the universe, the perception of time and the generative potential of the mark, also including a selection of artists' books. Among the works on display are the series Ab origine, the various versions of Entanglement, and the works dedicated to Il mare di Dirac, Materiaoscura, Lunghezza d'onda, Àpeiron, Scripta mutant, Vortex temporis. The recent large-format series Sui bordi del tempo and Gli occhi del cielo also stand out: immersive, chromatically intense works that unfold like musical polyphonies along the walls of the Museum. In the Àpeiron series and in some works linked to Il mare di Dirac, the dust is no longer composed solely of abstract signs, but of letters, graphemes and formulas that introduce into Bindella's research a dimension at once scientific, philosophical and poetic, questioning the relationship between humankind, matter and the universe.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by De Luca Editori d'Arte, containing, in addition to reproductions of the works on display, an institutional presentation by Federica Pirani, the essay by the curator Ilaria Schiaffini, critical contributions by Claudio Zambianchi and Beatrice Peria, the interview by Carlo Alberto Bucci with the artist, and a critical biography by Arianna Mercanti. The texts are accompanied by an English translation by Emma C. Gainsforth.