Giuliano Collina. Animi Domus

The exhibition presents about 50 works (34 paintings and drawings) created by Giuliano Collina between 2002 and 2003, on the theme of the Home of Soul. The cycle entitled Animi Domus includes all three of Dante's book, all the possible dimensions of destiny: the wing of paradise, the rain of purgatory, the communications between heaven and earth, but also a profound exercise in patience; infernal fire but also vital and carnal, that tells the story of our planet ant its igneous core.

Giuliano Collina has never quiet satisfied himself with simply reflecting on painting using only the techniques of painting. Seen through the lens of his latest cycle of work, Animi Domus, he may be considered as an epic painter, though elegiac at the same time. Here the artist recovers the essential character of mystic narration; the colour is reduced to a minimum in order to favour the essential meaningfulness of the pictorial and plastic subject, Collina's houses of soul become the containers of such higlly fleeting contents that begin to grow and multiply around the artist.