5 finestre + 1 verza

First of the three events about Gadda at Triennale of Milan is Elisa Carutti exhibition, an under’25 artist based in Milan.

The exhibition of Elisa Carutti is inspired by the following passage from Gadda’s “Tendo al mio fine” (the preface of “Il castello di Udine”).

The five canvases register time into the pictorial substance in a constant process of evolution and decay.  These are paintings with a deliberately unfinished aspect, ripped, as if the matter is already in an advanced state of corruption, as if time was turning the paintings into a sort of  ruins in front of our eyes.

Cabbages are shown at the final stage of their decomposition process and together they form the installation in the lateral room.
In the central hall there is a large canvas inspired by Pala di Brera’s composition of Piero della Francesca. It illustrates the architecture of Rotonda del Pellegrini (few people know about this very suggestive space located in the centre of Milan that used to be the hayloft during S.Carlo Borromeo time)  in which there is a cabbage inside; the artist  purpose is going through an “unlikely combination” between nature and architecture, according to Gadda’s practice : his literal composition reflects the way he used to look at life as a magnificent muddle or “mess”, where the most unlikely combinations and couplings can happen, achieving different outcomes, now tragic, now highly ironic, now estranged.