Rea! Art Fair 2021 Catalogue
ReA! Art Fair draws inspiration from the original concept of the Biennale: a platform to celebrate emerging artists without a gallery or museum mediating the exchange between creators and their audience. Now in its second year, ReA! is pulling broadly from the current climate, attempting to showcase the “harmony” which can be created when cultural limitations are removed: an ergonomic society which is free of oppressive categorizations, one where a collection of narratives can emerge and exist together, without division. What separated the fair is the emphasis we place on Artists and individual creators, not only their selected works. . The reason why the exhibition spans so many types of artworks, ranging from oil paintings to performing arts, is because we aim to change society’s point of view about the value of art. It isn’t just about collecting or decorating your home, but rather about creating a connection with the world as a political being where one begins to own, sustain and encourage ideas.
ReA! Art Fair draws inspiration from the original concept of the Biennale: a platform to celebrate emerging artists without a gallery or museum mediating the exchange between creators and their audience. Now in its second year, ReA! is pulling broadly from the current climate, attempting to showcase the “harmony” which can be created when cultural limitations are removed: an ergonomic society which is free of oppressive categorizations, one where a collection of narratives can emerge and exist together, without division. What separated the fair is the emphasis we place on Artists and individual creators, not only their selected works. . The reason why the exhibition spans so many types of artworks, ranging from oil paintings to performing arts, is because we aim to change society’s point of view about the value of art. It isn’t just about collecting or decorating your home, but rather about creating a connection with the world as a political being where one begins to own, sustain and encourage ideas.
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REA ART FAIR! 2021 21
Ilaria Berzaghi (b. 1999) is an Italian artist who lives and works in Milan. She is
currently completing her BA in Fine Art (Painting) at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Berzaghi’s artworks are based on the intimate aspects, often melancholic, that
are dear to her - she’s interested in capturing those delicate everyday moments and
transferring them onto the pictorial surface: I decide what to depict with selectivity, as
my eyes, attentive and solicited, memorize details, objects and subjects and then my
hands concretize everything onto the canvas through veils of light colour. Through her
works, Ilaria is searching for an ideal imaginary place, going with the steady flow of time,
which becomes stratified, much like her paintings.
Senza Titolo 1 is a rigorous composition made of angles and shadows created
by those angles, and it is them that set and direct the viewer’s perception. The multiple
squares that dominate the composition immediately make us wonder what we’re
looking at - is it an artwork inside the artwork? Is it some box, and if yes, what’s inside
of it? Or perhaps it’s an empty photo frame, so where is the photo? The muted colour
palette ensures that the squares visually interact in a subtle way, instead of clashing,
creating a calm, nostalgic feeling. This painting is a perfect example of the moments
that become captured by the artist - the image is, in fact, something that she sees every
day when she raises her gaze; it’s a ceiling lamp, a simple, even to some extent, trivial
object, fixed, almost permanently to another flat surface, yet depicted like that it turns
into an intriguing, mysterious, intimate item. Here, Berzaghi choses to reappropriate this
household object that resides in our homes and turn it into a symbol of domesticity
by turning it off - extrapolating it from its original function, and inserting it into a new
dimension through painting.
— Text by Maria Myasnikova
1 Senza titolo 1
2021
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm
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