Loris Cecchini: Emotional Diagrams and other micrologies

Emotional Diagrams and other micrologies will be the first solo exhibition of Loris Cecchini (b. 1969, Milan) with Leila Heller Gallery in NYC.
Continuing his inquiry into the evaluation of space in relation to nature, technology, and art, the show proposes an overview of the artist’s practice whereby materials are re-explored while reality gradually evanesces across the gallery’s space.
Throughout his exciting career, Cecchini has continuously introduced the concept of the organic element as a central element of his work, in part as an exploration of the idea of the object and its inherent materiality but also as a minimalist practice. Acting with the lens of a scientist, Cecchini closely examines his modules initially starting with basic 3D or watercolor studies moving forward toward the particularity of natural elements.
The exhibition will present a number of Cecchini’s module-based installations, a calculated chain of stainless steel elements originating from his preliminary inquiries again using organism, as a leitmotif in his work to address the intricate evolution of art in relation to sciences. In The Ineffable gardener and inherent transience, Cecchini has joined together petals of his steel modules to form a semblance of climbing plant organically deriving in an array of bewildering trails contrasting the deliberate intention of the propagation.

Biological metaphor and motion represent core philosophies behind the artist’s investigation and fundamental basis in his projects. The exhibition will feature two of his Wallwave Vibration series or what the artist refers to as ‘extruding bodies’, a physical manifestation of a pulsation resembling a fluid’s whose balance has been disseminated to form a delicate electromagnetic wave. With these works, the context of the gallery is transformed and fragility is incorporated within the supporting structure as the artist simultaneously uses space as a subject and material, establishing at the same time new definitions of sculpture.
Cecchini’s work owes as much to his expertise of a broad range of media as to his indefatigable curiosity. In addition to his structural pieces, the artist will have on view new colorful paintings constructed by combining countless layers of synthetic felt and iron, a process that he amalgamates using both manual and scientific labor. The pattern-like “stiacciato” or middle- relief surface of the compositions somewhat evokes fictional embosses as the inherent materiality of objects is reinvented in a kind of phenomenon of stratification and crystallization.
The artist is fascinated by the synthesis between art and life. Incorporating elements from various interdisciplinary fields from chemistry to groundbreaking technologies, his work playfully investigates the limits of creation generating a continuous detection of exciting art outcomes whose definitions are ever changing.