MISTICI, SENSUALI, CONTEMPLATIVI
Curated by Nicola Nitido

Quoting a work of the painter Carlo Carrà, Metodo Milano wants to give tribute to this great example of freedom, to the possibility of rethinking ourselves. Sometimes by changing direction abruptly. reversing the terms of the speech, it is directly proportional to the urgency of exhibiting a certain pictorial research, tangible in the practice of the artists presented here.

RUBEDODOOM
by Valerio Veneruso

In the alchemical tradition, the Rubedo indicates the latest phase of the Great Work, that moment in which the solid matter is completely transmuted by identifying itself to full with spirit: it’s time for the awareness, of openness to life, of the tolerance and acceptance; its color is red, its natural element is fire and the Phoenix the main symbol (as a creature capable of reborn from its own ashes). In addition to the numerous references that it encloses, the Rubedo represent also a brief stage of grace that determines the closing a circle.

FLASH
Curated by Beatrice Meoni

Flash is an exhibition for Metodo Milano, an Unconventional Artist run Space. Metodo is a tunnel, a 20mt gallery that runs between a parking space to a road communicating a stopping place to one of transit, that closes its circulation for an evening to host art projects. This exhibition began from an initial invitation given to Beatrice Meoni by Maurizio Bongiovanni. Flash, was then born from a constructive exchange between Meoni and Michele Tocca. This was extended to a group of painters with the idea of meeting for just one evening to share the underground gallery, and to show each one’s way of relating to the vision of darkness and time.
It's the darkness that passes in a blink of an eye that links an  inner vision to an external one. A black space in which the tension between vision and blindness shows a path in time, a process but also each one’s  personal position towards painting.

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SETTE BAMBINE E SETTE BAMBINI
by Luigi Antonio Presicce

Androgyus was killed. Minosse, king of Crete, established that the Athenians who killed his son, each year gave him seven young men and seven maidens. These children were sacrificed, given to the Minotaur, stepson of Minos, half man and  half bull forever locked in the labyrinth of Daedalus.

The artist continues his interest not towards the myth, but towards the symbol of the bull for the American economy and therefore for the world. Infact, Presicce has recently completed a period of residency at the Artist Alliance inc studio program in New York where he created a performance entitled The birth of Minotaur.
The intentions of the performance were evidently turned towards what today has become the image of the bull for Wall Street and the consequent fall-out of this imaginary in the real exasperated economic drift of the art world.

RARE & UNRELEASED
by Enne Boi

These are works "in captivity" that the artist has decided to keep for himself, keeping them in the darkness of a garage; that dark and stale atmosphere has become their forced habitat over time. The unusual space of Metodo Milano - a tunnel - lends properly to exposing them for a few hours to prying eyes without distorting its essence. They are intimate and resonant paintings in which the artist confronts formality, without however renouncing the narrative tension that animates his work from the beginning.​​​​​​​

EVER FALLEN
by Maurizio Bongiovanni and Andreas Mallouris

Ever Fallen is the first exhibition at Metodo Milano, a space that evokes thoughts, feelings and modes of exploration.
A tunnel is a directional space, a space of transition, a space that draws you in and spits you out, a space of emotions and perception. Two ends, two endings, two artists.