The new paintings by Vittorio Brodmann on exhibition at BAAB were created by the artist during his recent residency at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. Works redolent of a humanity without time, without place, standing on a distorted timeline; a humanity that simply stands, observes, exists in the multifaceted space of the work. In the artist’s paintings, the forms and spaces appear on the same level, as if seamlessly generated by each other. Hints of landscapes (the pines of Rome) and of interior environments (objects, windows and furnishing elements) are placed in a suspended space-time plane, the result of a dream or a distorted hallucination. They seem to suggest a static resilience to the mutability of the world, the silent and light observers in which human and animal presences mix, the actors of an existence full of conflict, open, fluid and inclusive.