Fragments at Bocconi

"A tribute to a time that was, mythical epoch which I have always heard about since childhood from my parents ... who met here at Bocconi and laid the emotional and working foundations on which they built their lives." These are the words of Giulio Camagni, painter of the works on display from January 16 at the Bocconi Restaurant (opening at 18).

The fragments are part of a series of small works on paper began on the beaches of the Gargano promontory, and continued in the studio in Vienna. Watercolor and Indian ink, sometimes both, on paper mounted on wood. The paper is simple sketching paper, to mistreat, to rinse under the tap, or in the waves maybe until il dissolves. The technique is quite simple, and involves the immediacy of a gesture free of intentions. The hand lets you manage the brush, the brush looking for the color, water, paper, with no pause for reflection - only drying breaks.

"I'll turn a sheet around, fold it, cut it, in search of stains and light, I put it aside to work on a separate sheet; but then pick it back up days later. I give up, I start again and add some color, wash, iron ... Some I abandon, others fall apart in the process ...
It's very nice to paint in this way, enjoying doing it without a purpose. It's a way to let pure images emerge, impressions untainted by thought, "concludes Camagni.

The exhibition is open from Monday to Saturday, from 9am to 12 noon, until 10 March 2017.