by Jean-Loup Champion

The Pelle Rossa exhibition develops within the LAB.Oratorio, a multidisciplinary space dedicated to exhibition, research and experimentation, born from the recovery of another area of the Monumental Complex of S. Caterina in Formiello.  

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The room hosts an installation made of mysterious beings, canvases, rags, pieces of wood, paintings, veils and bone fragments: traces of the world, apparently disconnected, which serve to give a new meaning to life. What binds these signs is red , a color that magnifies shapes and surfaces while covering the works, as a skin would do.  

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The first instinctive impression in walking through the gallery space is the sense of lightness , given by the works of Jean-Loup: lightness as the desire to free oneself from a weight, to lift off the ground and transform things. The materials that the artist uses, the urns, the nails, the wood, the bones of the animals become something else.  

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Strong is also the reference to Naples, to the Fontanelle cemetery and to Pompeii: the volcanic lava, the bones and the petrified bodies tell of a city that is reborn from its ruins, of a story that is told by the artist sensibly attentive to the universe that hosts.