I can’t say much more about Edoardo Bernardi (https://www.edoardobernardi.it) because we chose him among thousands as the artist and designer to whom we would entrust our entire image of Donna Vittori Borgo Agricolo (www.donnavittori.com). The first time we met him we were captivated by the depth with which he asked us questions to get to know us and understand our spirit, our past but also our dreams.
All the graphics that represent us are his, the ones that appear even before someone meet us. And, above all, the wine labels that are the reason why we started this fantastic agricultural adventure.
“Will you give me the one with the horse? Give me the one with the dog?”, they tell us. And sometimes I have the impression that they choose the label more than the wine.
Everyone who has come to visit us, from China to the USA, from England to Germany (and obviously all the Italians) has felt compelled to tell us: “what a beautiful logo and what beautiful labels! Everything fits perfectly with your being”.
Over the years we have become friends and Edoardo is the friend with whom we have long chats, always ready to create connections: “Edoardo you should get paid for all the synergies you create between entrepreneurs. You put us in touch and sooner or later we will all do something together thanks to you!”.
With these premises I would never have missed for anything in the world the exhibition inaugurated on Sunday 13 November at the Galleria Romberg in Latina curated by Italo Bergantini and Gaia Conti.
The exhibition is part of the cycle ‘I racconti della domenica’, a project curated by Italo Bergantini and Gianluca Marziani, with the literary curator Rossana Carturan, which ‘short-circuits’ young writers with artists.
Edoardo was told by Sara Taffoni with an unpublished piece that truly describes the hyper-reality of his works of art. A dreamlike painting that Sara perfectly described in the dream of the protagonist of her story.
In some parts it reminded me of the beginning of Raymond Queneau’s Blue Flowers with the Chinese story summed up in the sentence: ‘But is it Chang Tsu who dreams of being a butterfly or the butterfly who dreams of being Chang Tsu?’.
I don’t know exactly who I am, but I’m sure that without dreams we cannot build a reality worth living. A reality where we can give a meaning to our being that goes beyond the appearances that cage us so much.
But then what is reality if not the perception we have of it. And as a lover of the philosophy of science I have always debated the fact that there is not just one reality but a thousand, because each is mediated by the actual power of our senses (the wavelengths that each of us is able to process) and then by our substratum of personal experience that transforms even the straightest lines into a tangled ball.
And in this interpretative madness many are struggling to search for the absolute that does not exist. To give reason to the freedom of the works on display, even the sun has given us a hand. What a paradox: I arrived in the afternoon and the gallery had windows to the east so they should have been in the shade. But a hot October sun was reflecting on a nearby skyscraper and the gallery was flooded with sun, and it needed the Venetian blinds down!
So, in this apparent confusion of Edoardo Bernardi's broken and dreamlike reality, even the few certainties of geographical orientation on the position of the sun were lost and we found ourselves in an unlikely dimension with compasses that went crazy.
This is why I like it when, looking at Edoardo's paintings, you feel a sense of 'power' expressed by the signs as well as the colors. An urgency of an investigation of reality that leads to different layers of those where the habitual operations of life take place to which we can never (and must never) resign ourselves.
Some canvases have been cut and sewn back together just like life does with our wounds. And every wound makes us more beautiful not in the external visible image but in the perceived one where life is staged every day for those who want to live it.
And now, dear Edoardo Bernardi, remember that the Rosé wine will be ready soon and that this madness of yours that we share must be transformed into an element that transmits joy together with our nectar of passion!
The exhibition will be open in Latina until November 8, 2024, don't miss it. And follow Edoardo ((https://www.edoardobernardi.it) on social media where you can see him at work!
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