2nd – 17th September 2024
opening Monday 2nd September 2024, h 6.30 pm

The artist is part of a story of architects/artists/designers “builders of worlds”, which boasts illustrious names such as John Hejduk, Walter Pichler, Raimund Abraham and in Italy Massimo Scolari, who have a common denominator in the construction of an imaginative universe in which archetypes and the art of memory investigate the topos of an architecture of the imagination.
The sign made by pen has the flavour of burin engravings and recalls the refined line softened by painstaking manual skill. Reiterated traits to build, as in real architecture, sign by sign, brick by brick, the elevation of the masonry block. Figures appear among fragmented constructions and fragments of archaeology, entablatures, canephoras, herms, Telamons, pyramids and ziggurats in which geometric solids reminiscent of Pacioli are sometimes fitted.
Gueli’s Lighthouses are epitomes of a universe in which we celebrate – in the absence of man? – the space of the Fantastic, the “domain of the unexpected” which goes beyond historical contingency and the boundaries of reality to inhabit the unknown geography of the territories of the unconscious. They are visions in which structure is linked to symbol and geometry, both tools of knowledge, which cross remote themes and times.
Duality between sign and expressed image, between architecture and figure, the Guelian LIGHTHOUSE, a silent inhabitant, ready to welcome unexpected travellers attracted by the beam of light of the imagination, takes inspiration from the classical language to frequent the dimension of the “Romantic Sublime”. A crystallized sign defined by a constant and reiterated trait, eschatological figurations that aspire to the status of Monumentum for a new humanity or to the recovery of a lost world?

Angelo Gueli (Gela, 1966) lives and works in Florence where he obtained a degree in architecture. His deep passion for drawing led him to try his hand at various fields ranging from architectural planning to design, from sculpture to painting. His projects and works have been published in books and magazines.  He has participated in national and international exhibitions. He has written books and articles on topics related to architecture and design.

He has always considered drawing as the inevitable basis from which every story linked to visual arts can and must start. In his most recent works he uses the architect’s graphic and cultural tools, combining a stubbornly dreamlike vision of the project with a pragmatic approach to the tectonics of buildings.