work
eve
| category | Installation |
| subject | Nature |
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| base | 0 cm |
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| year | 2021 |
eve, 2021
solo exhibition at MASSIMO, Milano
Curated/text by Paolo Gabriotti
Curatorial text excerpt:
...Faced with this amputation of words that is growing in the floor, I have no choice but to look
for references, to stitch together quotations from which suggestions may emerge. I pick up a
page by Tim Ingold, a passage on the illusions produced by the myth of the will: “To presume
mastery in any situation of existential uncertainty is to court disaster”. Paolo’s formal control
makes me think of a courtship with disaster, for his works seem to be innervated by the sensation
of the impending, in which biographical elements and iconological references mingle,
calling into question broader criticalities of the present age. The way it reveals, day by day, a
conjuncture of many ends of the world - social, environmental, economic - but above all the apparent
historical incapacity to express them if not in the immobility of a retroactive prophecy.
The very title of the exhibition, eve, the vigil, conceals in the harmony of the palindrome word
a reference to cyclical time, to a feeling of being trapped in an imperishable wait, which is
though essentially dead time as it does not seem to be able to find a resolution in the event...
(Paolo Gabriotti)
solo exhibition at MASSIMO, Milano
Curated/text by Paolo Gabriotti
Curatorial text excerpt:
...Faced with this amputation of words that is growing in the floor, I have no choice but to look
for references, to stitch together quotations from which suggestions may emerge. I pick up a
page by Tim Ingold, a passage on the illusions produced by the myth of the will: “To presume
mastery in any situation of existential uncertainty is to court disaster”. Paolo’s formal control
makes me think of a courtship with disaster, for his works seem to be innervated by the sensation
of the impending, in which biographical elements and iconological references mingle,
calling into question broader criticalities of the present age. The way it reveals, day by day, a
conjuncture of many ends of the world - social, environmental, economic - but above all the apparent
historical incapacity to express them if not in the immobility of a retroactive prophecy.
The very title of the exhibition, eve, the vigil, conceals in the harmony of the palindrome word
a reference to cyclical time, to a feeling of being trapped in an imperishable wait, which is
though essentially dead time as it does not seem to be able to find a resolution in the event...
(Paolo Gabriotti)
