Lo sguardo di Mercurio

The exhibition spaces host a series of two-dimensional works, real landscapes born from the digital reworking of photographic material captured by the artist in places of age-old tradition such as Nove, a town in the Veneto region renowned for ceramic production, and the Brenta River. Clouds of data, composed of photographs of ceramic artifacts and natural glimpses of the river, are fed to artificial intelligence algorithms. The results undergo a further elaboration process through precise inputs from Ardini, establishing an osmotic flow of thought and sensitivity between human and machine. Thus, the Vedute are born, an homage to the classical iconographic theme, reinterpreted in a contemporary key and presented as photo-ceramic prints. Each of these works is accompanied by one or more amorphous elements, refractory extrusions that surface from the flat plane, emerging like breaths to inhabit three-dimensional space. The Diatomee, fluid bodies evoking a suspended dimension—are constitutionally hybrid images, taking form like the dream of a machine becoming matter.

According to an antithetical demiurgic movement, the exhibition concludes with a descent, both physical and evocative, into a proto-vital condition. Fluid, visceral presences recall amniotic liquids in motion: viscous volumes surfacing and emerging from the earth itself. Ceramic castings and acetate forms share a metamorphic dimension, alluding to primordial organisms engaged in an evolutionary trajectory that reaches toward the forms presented on the upper floor of the gallery.