Giampiero Romanò: Fragile, Handle with Care

Romanò combines artistic creativity with his skills in restoration and preservation. He works with antique mirrors and frames, transforming used pieces of framed mirrors into whole new entities; “Romanò’s ‘mirrors could look rich and beautiful, yet they are extremely fragile, exactly like people” as the gallery puts it. And “the artworks are also a representation of a journey to parallel temporal universes and are signs of revolution on the conventional in a bid for change”.

Past, present, and future find a way to co-exist in his artworks. They combine history and memories (the old frames) with the present (people’s faces reflected in the mirrors), and he leaves room for the future.”We the human beings are the mirror, the element that should give cohesion to the frame which is our history,” he says.

To 17 September.