PUNTO DI ROTTURA

Punto di rottura (Breaking Point) is the title of the new bi-personal exhibition curated by Marcella Manni and hosted at Metronom. The show features the latest artworks by artists Eeva Hannula and Daniele Marzorati.

In archaeology, the processes of degradation and conservation are opposing forces that both aim for survival through the modification of materials. The word ‘degradation’ carries a negative connotation for what is, essentially, a natural process: the change in the physical characteristics of objects exposed to the passage of time. Preserving is simultaneously altering. The breaking point is a moment, symbolically identified, of material and formal change that marks a transformation, a passage.

Hannula and Marzorati interpret a contemporary trend in the production of images, that of ‘recovery’ and re-elaboration. Starting from signs, symbols, and a physical and conceptual shift, they construct an iconographic exploration that uses tools normally employed from historical analysis to visual production. 
It is not investigation or documentation, but rather a migration, a movement of thought that shifts, and in this shifting, between rupture and transformation, finds its coherent and contemporary fulfillment.