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• Marta Ravasi HEI-HO 24 Settembre – 9 Novembre 2026 Zeus' brain, a particularly exquisite food -Marta Ravasi's 9 Wombs at Acappella Gallery- living nature / still life movement / stasis internal / external content / form message / messenger unit / plurality The Diòs enkèfalos was attributed by the ancients to what was superlative, with particular reference to food: something so exquisite that it deserved proximity to the head of Zeus. Some foods -including fruits - with perfectly completed shapes carry with them a promise of alteration. Of the three basic shapes, the circle, a polygon with an infinite number of sides, is the one that most easily seems to be able to escape itself. It only takes a little pressure for it to become oval, a growth for it to swell, a sag for it to bend. From a geometry with no beginning or end, an organic form can emerge, subject to growth, mutation, bending, and liquidity. Bruno Munari writes that a form can have “already within itself an indication of the direction of movement”, that is, an intrinsic vital sense. The implicit tension of a natural object is perceived, therefore, in its capacity for change on the time axis. What is imperturbable to the variables of microscopic dynamics - and is apparently static, firm, immutable - may be a mirror of an apparent fixity on whose mantle, instead, life flows. The stability found in an irregular configuration tells the story of the infinite suspension of a patwhich moves in two opposite directions: gravitropic and phototropic. ‘ The root system ’, the system of roots, of the seed, of the past mirrors ‘ the fruit system ’, the system of the fruit, of the product, of the future showing, in the fixed instant, a present embraced by its becoming: not a crystallized condition, but the provisional point - of waiting - in which opposite directions meet. The exquisite fruit therefore seems touched by divine lustre not only for the association cerebral, but for a deeper kinship with the generative body of Zeus. The gestation of Dionysus, outside the uterus but in a cavity of the body that suddenly becomes matrix, introduces a new anatomy of birth. A thigh can become a lap, a bowl can become a belly, a basket It is a domestic and primordial cavity: a space capable of guarding a transformation. In that dimension, every fruit is fulfilled matter and promise of fulfillment and painting takes place further gestation, in which the visible is cradled before becoming fully himself. Every surface is a membrane, wrapped in shades of carnal colors that remove the fruits from botanical evidence and reunite them with body size. In threshold colors, we witness the formation of identities: each twin form becomes the guardian of a facet of the self. It is in this infinite twinning that the soul moves on a path in seek, according to Plotinus, ensuring a movement that does not lose its center, even if walking away in search of his own selves. But every perimeter is a trace for a return, a gravitation, near or far, which always accompanies home.
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  Marta Ravasi - HEI-HO

  Jusqu’au 9 nov. 2026

  
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