Un'insolita presenza della scultura italiana contemporanea: le sperimentazioni di Elio Marchegiani tra arte e scienza

Starting from the problematic dialogue of art with science that actively affected much of modern thought and that became established during the 20th century, the contribution examines the artistic experience of Elio Marchegiani. The main focus is on his plastic research, which began in the early 1960s, when his initial gaze as a painter turned to new linguistic and communicative processes. From the objects that start to populate its surfaces driven by a sense of freedom that belongs to the Dada spirit, his will be a leaning more and more towards a three-dimensionality, urged by the knowledge of the mechanisms that animate things. It is an investigation for which science and technology become part of his imaginary, with the ability to grasp its human implications. Through playfulness, irony, irreverence, accompanied by a strong sense of experimentation, the artist rests his gaze on reality, highlighting its contradictions, doubts, its new mythologies, addressed through a more flexible look at the World, that art translates as thought through images.