Stop moments of life, entrusting them to

technological appliances is a way to make them unforgettable  and to be able to relive them every time

we feel the need.

"Recorder",  the personal art exhibition of the artist Viviana Gernone, offers portraits of people,

caught in the act of remembering, traveling with the mind

and with the heart, through the emotions

that memories arouse.

Remember, it doesn't mean  simply

  “Recalling past events”.

The experience of each of us produces emotions

that accompany the memories. This shows that remembering also means rediscovering and retracing

the emotions that time has deposited

in our heart.

From the etymology of the word "remember"

(from the Latin re-cordis, bring back to the heart) we learn that the heart was once thought to be there  site

of memory.

“The external world is as if connected by a mysterious thread to the fibers of memory

and sometimes it awakens them, in spite of ourselves. "  

Alexandre Dumas, from “Twenty years later”.

This quote refers to the idea that  the   memories can arise spontaneously and unexpectedly.

In the paintings on display, the common thread cited by Dumas, in his novel,  is represented

from the tapes of the vhs and cassette tapes applied

to the canvas, by the artist Viviana Gernone.

There are about ten mixed technique paintings,

on which the artist wanted to give more space to  affective and emotional exist of the

person portrayed, without forgetting the

material and schematic daily reality that,

indeed, it is raw material, the very lifeblood of memories

which we eat every day and to whom

we cannot give up.