In the Manica Lunga, platforms, tapestries, rotating paintings and suspended installations evoke the trade fairs of the 1970s
Crossing the threshold of Enrico David's retrospective exhibition Tomorrow I'll be back at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea is tantamount to entering a territory suspended between memory, invention and dilated time. The title, repeated by the artist for almost forty years, does not indicate a geographical return, but rather a poetic and philosophical tension: "I'm not going anywhere and I'm not coming back," he says when we meet him half an hour's drive from the centre of Turin, evoking an ideal nostos, a tomorrow that is both promise and precariousness, a desire for definition and inevitable transit.
The retrospective, curated by Marianna Vecellio, unfolds in six monumental rooms that correspond to the pillars of the artist's creative practice. It is not chronology that determines the route, but an emotional architecture, a workshop of visions in which the grotesque, the carnivalesque, the theatrical and the autobiographical intertwine in an unstable dialogue. The sudden death of his father during a dinner party - the founding trauma of David's adolescence - permeates the entire work, transforming itself into an invisible memory that guides the choice of materials and plastic gestures, recalling Freud's reflection on the relationship between Eros and Thanatos, between creative vitality and confrontation with absence.
