Impulse for a journey

Galleria Allegra Ravizza is pleased to invite you to the double solo exhibition of Tania Pistone and Nanda Vigo titled "Impulse for a Journey" in the new venue of the Gallery at Piazza Cioccaro 11, Lugano (II floor) on Wednesday, September 11 from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

"Impulse for a Journey" is a dialogue between two artistic identities of different generation, Nanda Vigo (Milan, 1936 – 2020) and Tania Pistone (Catalia, 1969), united by the same expressive force and artistic intent.

Although concretely different, both artists aim with their art to project the viewer into an "other" dimension: in fact the former conceives of her works as forms and structures capable of activating informational impulses that, through the diffusion and immateriality of light, lead the viewer to veer toward distant, intelligible concepts and worlds; the latter, on the other hand, through the visual impact of language and writing, transforms the graphic sign into a symbol capable of projecting the viewer into a further, abstract and emotional dimension.

Nanda Vigo's Cronotopo and Tania Pistone's canvases crammed with signs and writing lead to an abstract exploration of one's knowledge, memory and subconscious. Nanda Vigo' s sculptures characterized by a clean, industrial aesthetic, as well as the drawings of which they are a graphic representation, deform space by leading the viewer on a journey into the totality of one's memory. If in the Milanese artist's work the omnipresent and inescapable element is light, conceived as a unifying tool between space/topos and time/cronos, in Tania Pistone's creations the main element is writing demolished of its primary function, that is legibility. On a monochrome basis, graphically recognizable but totally indecipherable words, aphorisms and thoughts alternate and layer under unknown symbols generating an intimate subconscious narrative, different and personal for each individual.