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IF YOU ASKED ME ABOUT A FLOWER
WHAT WOULD I SAY 
2024

This work mixes figurative and abstract language, repetition and evolutionary change, to deal with topics of identity and representation while posing questions on subjectivity and intersubjectivity.
Viewers are disoriented but placed in an active position, free to interpret and reconstruct creatively the scattered landscape around them, constituted by the representation of a single subject (a flower) that has been fragmented and displayed around them in several parallel reconfigurations.
The subject of the ‘flower’ is merely a starting point, as its fragmentation and all its simultaneous variations constitute the work.
It is a vision of the contemporary work of art which does not position itself at the termination point of the creative process (a ‘finished product’ to be contemplated), but more as a site of navigation, a portal, a generator of ongoing activities in perpetual evolution.
The public is encouraged to question what is in front of their eyes—in the context of the exhibition as well as metaphorically in their lives—and to go beyond the immediate appearance, choosing plurality over singularity, finding similarities among differences while celebrating variability.
Viewers are free to explore multiple abstract shapes and structures created by dismantling, scrambling, recomposing copies of the initial flower into new alternative and simultaneous narratives, suggesting an open-minded approach for challenging the representation of everything around us, actively envisioning new configurations and significances.

If You Asked Me About A Flower
What Would I Say

Exhibition runtime:

October 05 / 31 October 2024

Opening show: Saturday 05 October
5pm to 8pm

Regular opening times: Friday/Saturday/Sunday
3pm to 6pm
Open also by appointment


Where:
FZ Atelier
Eva Besnyöstraat 36
1087KR Amsterdam NL


Taking inspiration from what happens in Nature in which very different species share the same identical DNA building blocks but arranged in different ways, all these artworks present small arrangement variations which lead to vastly different results in the way they appear. Flowers can have similar features but different configurations, can display mutations, or can combine together fragments from different sets, producing compact arrangements or grouped into families.
At the forefront is the generative process that redefines the initial shape of the flower each time, not the artworks of the flowers themselves.
The portrayal of each flower is displayed in a continuous rearrangement of its ‘elementary components’ (the same fragments generated by the initial dissection gesture of a one-line scribble), rather than on a unique configuration (singular interpretation). Many variations of that flower are created simultaneously by combining almost identical copies of its basic elements, connected and arranged in different ways. Artworks are reconstructed abstractedly using homogeneous fragments from similar sets or by blending together sets of fragments from different ones.

  FRANCESCO ZORZI (Italy) Francesco Zorzi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam working with a wide variety of mediums, informed by his background in design, his love for the world of Color and his fascinations into the mechanics of vision, perception and interpretation of reality. His works are united by the quest for the qualities of what makes us ‘human’, reflecting on how we interact with what’s in front of our eyes, how we make sense of it and how we explore the inner-worlds we create with it. His explorations - whether dissecting Colors or Shapes - can be seen as an ongoing study on the structure of their inner components and the interaction between each other. These abstract configurations are like fragments of a kaleidoscope in perpetual movement without a beginning or an end, offering the viewers a moment of reflection, new playgrounds for exploration and wonder. His visually ambiguous wax-crayons works, are an investigation on Color in itself: its visual perception as well as the duality of Color as both lightwave and matter. Each artwork is the result of a complex layering of various wax-crayons sticks of different tones, applied next to and on top of each other, creating an ever evolving, ever pulsating flux of constant dynamic movement. The appearance of their colors and the structure of their wax influence directly the ways they interact and ‘talk’ with each other, mutually attracting or repelling one another. They can create harmony or tension. Sometimes they blend and dance together at different speed, in an homogenous flow or in multiple streams and directions. Sometimes they clash and come into conflict with one another. These brightly-hued abstract artworks are as much about color as they are of about emotions altogether: on one side they explore the phenomenological impact color has on human perception (seen from the point of view of the viewer being in front of the artworks); on the other they interact with the ineffable emotions and sensations guiding the process of mixing the crayons (seen from the point of view of the artist producing the artworks). The colors of each artwork are immersive, physical and tactile, just like the process of its creation: Ethereal and vibrating but also palpable and present at once.