Silenzio d'Oro the latest exhibition of Erjon Nazeraj, curated by Andrea Tinterri, opens at Area 35 Art Gallery on Friday 19

of May.

A production of almost ten years of activity (2014 - 2023) which testifies to a design coherence and a linguistic heterogeneity that contaminates sculpture.

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Respiro, (2014) consisting of two lungs in reinforced concrete and a series of bas-reliefs named Superfici Eoniche, (2021 - ongoing) occupy two walls of the exhibition hall, as if they were two landscapes in comparison, the first witnessing the atrophied relationship with nature, the second portraying scraps of memories, geographical maps, fragments of thermal blankets, personal documents all coming from the intimate personal experiences of the artist as well as the collective migrations that affect Italy and Europe.

The exhibition is presented as a single body that winds along the horizon of the space, in the left corner of the room and continues on the central wall, the restitution of an expanded or perhaps exploded landscape; Nazeraj chooses three elements, an iron silhouette of a mountain peak, a small marble shrine and a watercolor drawing that simulates the color of the sky.

Three elements which in their formal synthesis become archetypal signals, multiform self-portraits, the memory of places known to the artist, which the observer cannot trace on any map, but which materialize as a repetitive déjà vu.

To complete the set-up, Silenzio d'Oro, the reproduction of small ear bones resting on a brass base that testifies the necessary practice of absolute listening to gain the landscape of fragile sounds , which must be preserved and studied, as if they were a new language, a new oracle.