DISSONANZE DIFFERITE - Franca Bernardi

FRANCA BERNARDI
Dissonanze differite 
(Deffered Dissonances)

2011
scratch on methacrylate

Inaugurated on December 15th, 2011 until March 31st, 2012

Curated by Antonio Capaccio

Text by Silvia Bre

This new work finished in 2011 was made for this precise exhibition. This artwork was designed to exploit the different lights in an external setting, as is the BRECCE showcase.
All our knowledge varies from the light and its infinite alterations, until dark. 
Ignorant, we are its science, and this shall and could suffice. But being is not enough. We wander through the light, in her thoughts. We try to read the geography of a forest, but it slips out of the description, the tale. Maybe we are the description, trying to understand that we make art suspended between realism and abstraction.
Knowing is not the most important outcome. Our movement could create a drawing that entertains a closer and more intimate relation with light. In this sense there are a few hints to grasp. For instance, the necessity of always renewing intention. As we know, light is made of waves succeeding each other. What is discovered must necessarily be discovered again, like a flag, always waving the inexistence of certainty.
Reality is the Northern Star. We learn from it and we oppose to it the shapes of our imagination, hoping for them to be bright. Knowing that, following a great poet’s words, light only adds itself. We can only know the honesty of our gaze, and the unrestrained passion of looking at it. (Silvia Bre)
Light veils pitfall.
Light pushes us to believe, nourishes our illusions, moves our passions up to a transparent and divine clarity. 
Light that comes, thrown on uncertainty, to enlighten the restless scene of imperfect days. Feeding the fire of longing for perfection.
Though it we train in the precarious feeling of life. Momentaneous impression, changing, iridescent appearance. However, an echo of a further and higher truth resonates for it.
Light without shade, transparency guiding us, yes, but towards what?
Outside of itself. On the mysterious and obscure side of seeing.
To a foreign spectrum of non-familiarity.
To its elusive call.
To its adversarial lesson, both primitive and eternal, fluctuating with life and cadaveric, delight and rigor.
Unsolved traumatic experience, bending to the tyranny of a hallucinatory obsession, to a dazzling sun.
Talent and method are necessary, but idolatry isn’t.
(Antonio Capaccio)

Franca Bernardi was born in Santhià (Vercelli). She attended the Art Institute in Rome and then graduated in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti. From 1968 until 1998 she taught Panting Discipline first at the Art Institute then at Artistic High School and finally at Accademia di Belle Arti. Her first personal exhibition was in 1981. Her work was documented through various exhibitions in Italy and abroad, both personal and collective.


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