CASA FLASH ART - A Slant of Light
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The contemporary art system has, over recent decades, constructed an infrastructure of visibility: perceptual rules that define how an artwork is meant to appear. The white cube, art fairs, and showrooms all share the same luminous grammar — neutral walls, uniform lighting, shadows erased. A frontal light that stabilizes space, suspends time, and transforms vision into a controlled device.
A Slant of Light takes a position against this neutrality. The title comes from Emily Dickinson: “There’s a certain Slant of light, / Winter Afternoons —” It is a winter light that does not illuminate, but oppresses.
It leaves no visible marks on the body, yet produces an “internal difference / Where the Meanings, are” — an inner alteration without wound. A light that does not reveal: it acts.
The exhibition situates itself at a specific moment in the art calendar: the post-market. After the concentrated brightness of art fairs — where everything is designed for maximum legibility — what remains is a different light, quieter, almost domestic. A light that no longer needs to persuade.
In this time, artworks change state: they cease to be objects displayed within a system of exchange and return to being presences traversed by variations of light, shadow, and time.
The works of Friedrich Andreoni, Benedetta Fioravanti, and Jacopo Mazzetti operate on thresholds, surfaces, and minimal shifts: elements that emerge only when light ceases to be neutral.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the new issue of Flash Art Italia dedicated to The City: Radical Utopias and Contemporary Dystopias is presented. The slanted light also becomes a deviation of the gaze — a condition that makes visible what normally remains at the margins. Here, light does not serve to make the work legible. It places it under tension.
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