Like a Leaf

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In the ground floor room of Spazio CEDAP, the Museo Organica hosts for the first time an exhibition dedicated to illustration with ‘Like a leaf‘, a solo show by artist Toni Demuro. His images narrate a dreamlike universe of stylised forms, a rarefied world populated by natural organisms – trees, branches, leaves, flowers, butterflies and solitary human beings – illuminated by pale lights or brightened by opalescent nocturnal light.

Curator Emiliano Longobardi writes about the exhibition: “There are natural spaces that are not just backgrounds, but active spaces: intertwining branches, curved woods, enormous leaves as big as bodies, lunar and solar circles that open up spaces within spaces, that become accesses to other places of light. And there are natural spaces that remain pure vegetal signs […]. Remembering that the landscape concerns us, that time can be deep breath, that solitude can be inhabitable: it is the measure of the balance between silence and restrained speech, between nature-personage and collected figures.

Toni Demuro’s work offers a discreet passage between worlds and modes: slowing down, observing, recognising oneself as part of something that does not need to say itself explicitly or speak loudly to make itself heard, but which continues to reverberate, finding its highest dimension in inner persistence’.

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