Biography
«There are two ways not to suffer from it. The former is easy for the most people: to accept hell and to become part of it to the point of not seeing it anymore. The latter is risky and requires steady attention and learning: to seek and to be able to recognize whom and what, in the middle of hell, is not hell, and let it last, and give it space”
(Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili, 1972)
Quattrocentometriquadri is a cultural association founded in 2009. It chooses art as an instrument to study human nature and aims to promote the networking and the exchange between artists and society; to promote young art; to facilitate cultural exchanges between different spheres; to promote architectural and lanscape culture through the confrontation with other art forms.
The name “quattrocentometriquadri” refers to the mental dimension, wide and flexible, of the project, against the spacial constraints imposed by the market.
On the other side, fourhundred (quattrocento in Italian) is the space in square meters (metri quadri in Italian) that the gallery offers to contemporary art for its more unexpected and creative expressions, using all the corners in its space.
At the same time, the square meter as measurement unit of the real space, against the virtual one, is an important reference to the inalienable physical dimension of man and nature.
The DNA of Quattrocentometriquadri can be summarized with few and clear keywords.
Healthy uneasiness, as need for a vital and steady cognitive renewal pushed by curiosity as “mental attitude”.
HumanIty, as respect towards nature and man, towards the physical dimension, limited and real, against the endless virtual space of the web, in favour of an inalienable attention and capacity of action to the evolving process of the city.
Lightness, as “reaction to the burden of life”, instrument for escape and creativity.
