2016 – #danilobucchi @ilpontecontemporanea – Rome

“For Bucchi, painting is the realm of apparitions, the place in which forces and energies that are inevitably on a collision course explode, somewhere between abstraction and figuration. In the art of the past, the painter used his manual skill to serve a unified vision of the world, whereas in contemporary art, Bucchi’s work affirms the centrality of the fragment. A constellation of inner figures bursts into the field of vision, introducing the emerging and discontinuous force of detail into the image. The work represents a collision between gestural freedom that rules the artist’s hand, on the verge of automatism, and description of a barely suspected landscape, portraying the encounter between random chance and pictorial discipline.”

Achille Bonito Oliva