Maurizio D’Andrea
Maurizio D’Andrea at Parcus Gallery: The Painter of the Generative Unconscious
Parcus Gallery presents the work of Maurizio D’Andrea, an artist whose research explores the unconscious as an active and generative stage. For D’Andrea, the symbol is not meant to represent but to act. His paintings do not merely offer an image for contemplation; they become devices that trigger processes of resonance, friction, and transformation within the gaze of the viewer.
Through superimposed layers of acrylic, abrasions, and translucent glazes, D’Andrea composes surfaces where gesture, error, and time accumulate into visible fields of force. The works unfold as archetypal presences that resist fixed interpretation, appearing instead as events in constant becoming. His approach emphasizes emptiness not as absence but as a fertile reservoir of energy, a space where the image can emerge and thought can expand.
In these compositions, colour and matter perform rather than describe. Rapid strokes collide with stratified transparencies, creating tensions between density and rarefaction, chaos and suspension. The paintings resonate as visual thresholds in which perception is unsettled and reorganized into a deeper form of attention. The viewer does not stand outside the image but is implicated in its unfolding, as the work acts upon inner imagination.
D’Andrea’s practice is nourished by an active dialogue with philosophy and psychology. Jung’s active imagination, the ambivalence of the pharmakon, and Bachelard’s phenomenology of matter all serve as operative frameworks, not as references to illustrate but as forces enacted on the canvas. In this horizon, painting becomes a dramaturgy of the invisible, a stage where psyche and image co-inhabit, withdraw, and reappear.
Parcus Gallery recognizes in Maurizio D’Andrea an uncompromising artistic voice that situates painting as a living process of transformation. His canvases are not closed images but open acts, spaces of metamorphosis where contemporary abstraction encounters timeless archetypes.
- 09/09/2025
