Manuela Bedeschi. Think look listen

After three years of work, between ideation, Archive research and construction of the editorial project, theManuela Bedeschi archive presents the monograph, curata da Matteo Galbiati, titled Manuela Bedeschi. Think look listen.
The volume, retracing forty years of research and work of the Vicenza artist in critical testimonies, It is concentrated peculiarly on the last 25 years of activity who see her engaged in an expressive exercise in which the light – Neon specifically - It is a fundamental part of his commitment to aesthetic reflection.

This volume gives way, then, to perform a Complete and total itinerary which makes useful testimony of Each personal exhibition - except for some exceptions for the value and relevance of the project - in which Bedeschi has activated, In each circumstance as its consolidated habit is, in a job site-specific. Bedeschi in his installations combines painting in a universe of very personal sense, sculpture, the installation and always gives the look of the observer the way of experiencing the experience of the work in mode, different sensitivity and feelings. The vary constant of the neon re-invention is, then, The central element of this publication is the journey that Bedeschi's light makes over time, modifying and strengthening their instances.

This book, that does not spare attention to detail, is conceived as a zoom on her work and on the way she implemented in modulating her expressiveness in Strict relationship to the environment which is never a scenic fifth, never submissive to the work, But he always responds with his own character a relaunch the effect of the luminous innesto impressed by the artist.

Thanks to the careful and punctual survey on photographic materials It was possible to return to the documentation of past exhibitions of which little had been shown in the volumes published then and of which it is now possible to give a printed testimony for the first time in a truly exhaustive way, or, In other cases, There are real unpublished ones that can be taken from a past time and returned to a right historical-critical recording.

The reorganization operation also concerned the arrangement of the bio-bibliographic system of Bedeschi which is now organically structured and completed chronologically with each exhibition, publication, item, review, interview.

The main contributions of the volume are: The main historical-critical text, Manuela Bedeschi. (Non) light alone, of Matteo Galbiati which follows the "luminous presence" since the works of the artist's debuts and then guide over the decades until the last creations of last year; Then follows the text of Massimo Donà, From the beginning, or always. Pure plays of light. On Manuela Bedeschi's work, in which the philosophical and spiritual dimension of his research is profound and intensely observed; then, to close the first part, Hear: Notes on Manuela Bedeschi's work, of Francesca pola which offers a concentrated and straightforward reading, very attentive to the link with the places and connections that the light grants. From this point on - he also underlined by a desired change of paper - the stories of the exhibitions and exhibitions from the exhibition from 2005 to the 202; twenty -five years collected in a flow of compelling images and which grants to bright color the possibility of fascinating the gaze, to grasp the time of a job that has never been limited, stem or interrupt. In the temporal distance it emerges the weight of the constancy, great value with which Manuela Bedeschi has given faith to his artistic vocation and, so, The experimentation has never failed to the desire for the gaze that never stop within the boundaries of certain conquests, but to always tend in addition to the next stage of his journey.

After such a powerful immersion in the description of the simple complexity of Bedeschi's work, The reader is given - deliberately positioned at this point to highlight the intense tone of the debate - the possibility of "assisting" a intense dialogue between the artist and Luca Massimo Barbero that, between questions and answers, they touch themes not only valid in highlighting the strength of the artist and his work, But also the humanity and intellectual honesty of the person. An important dialogue, Between confidentiality and rigor, in which the value of art lights up the passion, knowledge, of the experiences of both interlocutors.

We close with a part dedicated to projects useful to make it clear the dynamics of long gestation of his work and the ability to graft, with freshness, In an always different context, one's idea and vision. Also, It also seemed important to give space to the three studies of the artist who - in Verona, in Bagnolo di Lonigo and in Rome - they help with different energies to mature the concrete surrender of each work. The end is reserved, as mentioned above, to an updated apparatus bio-bibliographic to which photographs of the salient moments are interspersed, of meetings, friendships, of personal relationships, of the affections lived by the artist, Because even his life and the people who have made it and are part of it, they are a necessary reference point that demonstrates how life and research are always humanly closely connected.