clouds evoke hope in delicate drawing and sculpture series by mario trimarchi

The work centers on cloud forms translated into black-and-white ink drawings, metal sculptures, and illuminated shelves. The sculptures are balanced upward compositions that attempt to explore what exists beyond clouds. Subtle apparitions and fragments of a poetic vocabulary appear within the works, presenting natural presences and shifting yet essential atmospheres. Clouds are treated as moving forms that suggest imagination, reflection, and hope. The title Clouds as Prayers frames drawing clouds as surrender to gentle oblivion and contemplation of vapor that dissolves into fleeting prayers. Amid wars and environmental and political disasters, the clouds are approached as carriers of hope, while concealed memories such as shells, vases, leaves, doves, and angels emerge into an invisible silence.

"Mario Trimarchi continues his exploration at the intersection of design, architecture, and art, studying the forms of clouds and capturing their unpredictability through a series of black-and-white ink and small metal sculptures. Clouds as Prayers is the title of this exhibition, presented at the Paula Seegy Gallery in , offering a reflection on design as an act capable of generating attention and silence within a present marked by instability and uncertainty."

"Artist Mario Trimarchi's long-standing research unfolds through twenty black-and-white ink drawings on paper, six metal sculptures, and two illuminated shelves. The sculptures are carefully balanced compositions that rise upward in an attempt to explore what exists beyond the clouds. Within the works, subtle apparitions emerge, natural presences, and fragments of a poetic vocabulary that has always belonged to the artist's practice. The clouds become shifting yet essential presences, moving forms that suggest imagination, reflection, and hope."

"'The clouds drifting across the sky above us mark the boundary between human beings and the gods. To draw clouds is to surrender to a gentle oblivion, contemplating those mysterious masses of vapor that dissolve into fleeting prayers. Overwhelmed by wars and environmental and political disasters, we look to the clouds, asking them to hold the hope of hope itself. Within the drawings, almost concealed, fragments of small memories begin to emerge: shells left behind by the sea, vases, leaves, doves, angels-and the sky seems to gather an invisible silence,' shares Trimarchi."

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