Exhibitions: white in the collage as a tribute to Emily Dickinson

   An absolute white, but one that does not blind.

A white that invites contemplation and that, on closer inspection, reveals unexpected details, full of meaning.

    It is with this 'color-non-color' that the Roman artist, Simona Gasperini, has decided to pay homage to the American poet Emily Dickinson in one of her personal exhibitions at the 'ArtSharing' Gallery in Rome. Because it was in white that Emily Dickinson decided to dress before locking herself in her room, in the family home in Massachusetts, from which she never left again. And also because it is the white that highlights everything else. Starting with poetry. Because the poetry of Emily Dickinson can also be narrated and experienced through the beautiful collages by Simona Gasperini made with 'poor' materials, from gauze to the pages of a book, which become a sort of 'narrating me' and bring them closer to the lines of the American poet. , expressing them with similar levity.

    The exhibition, which is entitled: "White. Emily Dickinson: alive twice", explains the curator Penelope Filacchione, "is a symmetry of the personal stories of the two artists that is told through a superimposition of plots and papers on the canvas and that , as in Dickinson's secret drawers, they reveal themselves little by little, linking stories almost two centuries away ".

    Alongside the collages there are also other objects that take you back to a past with strong roots in the present such as the 7 meters of a mechanical piano score full of written verses that, starting from the ceiling of the gallery, return with difficulty inside a small trunk. Thus bringing to mind the image of the hundreds of poems by Emily Dickinson, hand-sewn in small notebooks hidden in a drawer and in the chest, found by her sister after the funeral. At the end of the exhibition, in fact, a 10-week workshop will start, open to anyone who wants to register, to create, each as they wish and with the help of Simona Gasperini and the gallery owner Penelope Filacchione, their own 'drawer of dreams'. Because art, in all its manifestations, explain,it can be expressed in a thousand ways and "brought among the people" to be truly shared.