“EGOSISTEMI” personal exhibition by Marcello Vigoni at the MA-EC Gallery in Milano

MA-EC Gallery of Milano will host “EGOSISTEMI” from 19 February to 19 March 2025

Di Lorenzo Chiaro il 8 Feb, 2025

“EGOSISTEMI” personal exhibition by Marcello Vigoni at the MA-EC Gallery in Milano.

MA-EC Gallery di Milano will host from February 19 to March 19, 2025 “EGOSYSTEMS”, the personal exhibition of Marcello Vigoni, Edited by Elizabeth Bacchin and organized by Techne Art Service.

EGOSYSTEMS illustrates the path of the Milanese artist Marcello Vigoni, covering a time span from 2017 to today. It features works from three major projects (“Paesaggi dall'inconscio”, “Multiverso” and “Please Save Devero”), which are the result of the exploration of concepts that gravitate around philosophy, biocentrism, spirituality, ethics and the concept of the human utilitarian vision.

In this exhibition, the focus is particularly on the processes of appropriation of the environment by man, who is increasingly alienated from nature. According to Vigoni, man is incapable of observing a place enjoying its fullness and its simple existence but, on the contrary, it is inherent in us the need to break down the world and label it, understand it in order to possess it. No longer ecosystems, therefore, but EGOsystems, in which the interests of man prevail over nature.

And yet, in the selected works this sort of protest against an increasingly fragmented world takes on the tones of poetry and we find ourselves observing nature with a sense of sweet nostalgia, because it represents a part that, even if buried, is an indelible part of us.

In the artist's works, atavistic scenarios merge with images of urban everyday life, creating settings that arise from the unconscious, of deep inner research. Dreamlike places where real stories come to life in which everything seems suspended and that transport us to a timeless dimension. Photography - preferred in its analogical black and white form - is in fact used by the artist not so much to reproduce reality, but to investigate it beyond the boundaries of the "visible". There is a calm sensation that accompanies the visual story, interrupting the chaotic flow of everyday life, capturing the senses and leading the viewer into a parallel world.

Drawing inspiration from the thought of Heraclitus, according to which harmony is nothing but a synthesis of opposites, Vigoni investigates them and inserts them into a fertile dialogue: present and infinite, real and unreal, light and shadow, are all antithetical poles and, at the same time, synthesis of the same reality. This “poetics of opposites”, as we might define it, has reminiscences in the conceptual operation that Magritte implemented in creating paradoxical and unusual juxtapositions, often identifiable only upon second and more careful observation, which lead to reflection on the boundaries of reality: what is true and what is fiction? Where is the dividing line?

In close dialogue with the other exhibition rooms, the exhibition will also feature a video installation, an intense reflection on life understood as a metaphor. The work is divided into three chapters that represent the birth, maturity and old age of the soul, of the human being. Water becomes the fil rouge, a narrative element that is compared to the rhythm of life itself. The work is conceptually linked to EGOSISTEMI, when it reflects on the relationship between man and nature. According to the artist, in fact, man is nature and all that superstructure that is built on him is nothing but a pure abstraction, which has nothing to do with reality.