LUCA LOMBARDI
The Rhythm of Things
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Curated by Glenda Cinquegrana
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to present The Rhythm of Things, a solo exhibition by Luca Lombardi. At the core of Lombardi’s research lies a sustained reflection on gesture and its contemporary mutations. If, in painting, gesture has long marked the point of contact between intention and matter, Lombardi takes the swipe, the everyday motion of scrolling through images and videos on a screen, as a foundational gesture for his work. Standardised and seemingly undramatic, it is nonetheless radical in its effects. Each passage replaces the previous one: the mark does not assert, but consumes and cancels. Within this dynamic, painting becomes the site where trace registers absence, colour acting as an index of continuous, rapid, potentially infinite consumption, in which images, information, and time overlap without settling into consciousness.
Through a measured use of layered applications and sinuous forms, Lombardi constructs pictorial fields in which colour occupies the entire surface of the canvas, radiating an inner luminosity that recalls the glow of screens. What emerges is a painting that does not describe so much as it activates: a visual experience in which rhythm is not only a subject, but a condition of seeing.