The Paolo Scheggi exhibition that Andrea Alibrandi is organizing at the Galleria Il Ponte is the second that Florence has devoted to him since the one I presented in ’83 at the Sala d’Armi in Palazzo Vecchio as part of the “Made in Florence” event. It is mainly based on the artist’s “Papers”: a corpus of 115 works that go from ’57 to ’61, the year in which Scheggi left Florence to go to Milan. There are 20 other pieces (from ’59 to ’67), almost all on display for the first time, which include works in sheet metal, canvas, on linen paper and aluminium, and in PVC, documenting the evolution of his research prior to his work for the theatre, his “actions” and his installations. […]

[…] In Milan he had gone from his first “intersurfaces with reflected areas” which started off from a rethink of Fontana’s “cut”, nevertheless still an intuitive, immediate gesture, towards a “beyond” without limits, towards an infinity outside time: for Scheggi space and time were to have another meaning: there would be that “interspace” that plays with the shadow caused by overlapping levels, by the time taken by light to bounce from one level to the one below, limiting the “beyond” to a set distance. It is as if he wanted to tame his idea of “space beyond” and as a consequence also the concept of time and cut them down to size. […]

Lara-Vinca Masini in the catalog