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not aggressive. This is associated with a notion of of an art that operates on the slope of sensibility and of
pleasure, and to the idea of a “guarantee” within art, that the “state of grace”. The humble skill of technique also
of successfully creating the minority reality of a personal dictates an anti-heroic and ironically domestic behavior.
image deriving from the artist’s individual impulse. It is no coincidence that these artists constantly resort
Mutability derives from the transient character of style, to drawing, which allows a refined and fleeting, dynamic
which can never be guaranteed continuity or stability. and flowing expression. Drawing makes it possible to
The young Italian artists in fact use languages that are capture the rapid transitions of sensibility, its spread
both different and differentiated, references to cultures beyond the restrictions of matter and paint. The sign
both remote in time and also close to our own. A fan-like does not encounter obstacles; on the contrary it permits
sensibility promotes images that surpass each other and understated images that are agile and open. Drawing
move away from poetics and a traditional faithfulness to allows allusion without peremptoriness; it allows the
it. Obviously, the image oscillates between figurative and expression of a state of mind without any need for a
abstract, between reference to an excessive figuration definitive and categorical description.
and the balanced reticence of the abstract, decorative
motif. The drawing in the works by Chia, Clemente, Cucchi,
De Maria and Paladino is sign, stroke, image, effigy, line,
The transience is in the creation of the work, which outline, scribble, doodle, landscape, map, diagram, profile,
is never hampered by academic perfectionism, but is silhouette, sketch, illustration, figure, foreshortened
always in transit between the creative drive and the figure, print, split, model, tracing, caricature, chiaroscuro,
stability of the result. Moreover, the image always graffiti, engraving, map, lithography, pastel, etching,
catches fleeting sensations, such as the witticisms in the woodcut. The tools may be: charcoal, pencil, pen, brush,
work of Chia, the sense of matter in that of Cucchi, the compass, set square, pantograph, slide-rule, ruler,
suspension of time in Clemente, the music of color in De stumping, stencil. The procedure can be arabesque,
Maria, and multipurpose motifs in Paladino. Time as a tracing, composing, copying, erasing, correcting, shining,
relentless flow becomes the defining moment of works drawing. The result: field, contour, shade, decoration,
that contain the embryo of their own supersedence. perspective, sketching.

Contradiction arises from the refusal to be confined Often in these artists the drawing produces intimate and
within the geometry of a coherence tied to a fixed, emblematic signs, it works through shadow and delicate
ideologically bunkered idea of the world. The images are shading, perceiving a “second soul” in things, discerning
the symptoms of an inexhaustible reserve that is not held elusive and unpredictable visions beneath the apparent
in check by a univocal language. Ironic, dramatic images, vision of mundane things that are apparently closed and
bright, neutral signs continuously cross the surface of unequivocal. Furthermore, it tends to manifest itself as a
the work, never characterizing and defining things that trace of a wider, more concrete image, choosing to stay
are intended to be mobile and open. in a deliberate state of transience. The transience derives
not only from the shadow or shading, but also from the
Emphasis on is required to capture minute sensations very little space and time its execution requires.
and thoughts. These artists are opposed to the focus on
the monumental and heroic that dominated the art of the The drawing always seems to reveal the artist’s assault
Sixties. Detail is the anchor of the temporary, the support on the immaculate space of the paper. Here, public and

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