Chimere

Alessandra Cocchi's works are of an unexpected lightness; not only because they seem to be made out of time-worn metal but instead are made of paper, manipulated and enameled paper, paper vitrified with an original and exquisite procedure; but most of all because they are perforated, almost as if permeated by air and to the point of being confused with the atmosphere.

It is not by chance that the artist loves and pursues Italo Calvino's inventions in the "Invisible cities". Their same color, a non-uniform glimmer of unexpressed dawn (since the artist is figurative elsewhere), leads toward this subtle metamorphosis. And yet in spite of this, the orthogonal joints of Alessandra Cocchi's pieces of sculpture make them conquer the space, so that they can be observed from any vantage point, with surprise and discovery. This is why by integrating themselves and/or dominating, they become a metaphor for existence, and specifically for the presence of artists in contemporary society, in which they lightly and fluidly place themselves inside things ["Geometrie fluide" is Alessandra Cocchi's trademark], to be able to interpret them in a logical, yet imaginative way.

Elisabetta Ricca Rosellini