The secret life of plants

Massimo Carasi presents in Milan the exhibition “The secret life of plants” with the works of Guido Bagini, that juxtapose architectural structures with skinny botanical elements.

The work of Guido Bagini seems to contain the elements of a subliminal message, almost a rebus encoded in the format of a rectangular monitor or a computer screen.

This message is issued by the juxtaposition of images of architectural structures, with views of pools and design elements mixed with skinny botanical elements, mostly added as settings, like rendering design projects.

Top: Guido Bagini, *Technogreen #002*, 2014, enamel on cardboard and zinc polished on dibond, 56x112 cm (detail). Above: Guido Bagini, “The secret life of plants”, exhibition view

The vegetation, not decisive element above, seems to be, in this new phase, an important detail to which the artist seems to devote a renewed interest.

The scenes depicted by Guido Bagini imply the presence of a "private eye" who attends a still image containing special incongruous. We are spectators of these compositions inspired by a secret life, or someone is watching us through them?

Guido Bagini, “Vita segreta delle piante”, vista dell'allestimento — Guido Bagini, “The secret life of plants”, exhibition view

The artist in fact breaks the image into portions which further complicate the unitary perception of the subject, blurring the thresholds between a situation in which it does not appear to human being or animal, and the limit beyond which, predictably, the reality is ordered and completed.

To further emphasize the feeling of suspension in time and fogging of overlapping realities, Guido Bagini uses besides the usual materials (cardboard glued on Dibond) tablets of reflective zinc etched with acid.