ROME.- Gagosian Gallery Rome presents Dan Colen’s first major exhibition in Rome. In “Poetry,” a large-scale exhibition at Gagosian New York last year, Colen moved closer to reality while plumbing its metaphysical potential. Rather than “deceiving the eye” with techniques that mimic real materials, he used the real materials themselves – a brick wall, a halfpipe, and a row of customized motorcycles — transforming them in bold and singular acts, and on a scale befitting his romance with environment. Since this time, Colen has been pushing his studio practice, defined with a band of constant collaborators, into a knowingly “informal” realm where the mark (or trace of action) remains live and visible, rather than sublimated or concealed. Trying to control what transpires while making sure that all gestures are sincere is an internal and external struggle that has been instrumental in fo