ARTISTS
ALIGHIERO BOETTI
Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) approached art as a self-taught artist, with an early interest in the research of Gaston Bachelard. His initial works were three-dimensional pieces derived from common everyday objects, which positioned him as a key figure in the Arte Povera movement (1967). He delved into the concept of identity (1968) and the biology of the human body in "two-handed writing" performances (1970-75) and sculpture. Intrigued by postal methods and arithmetic, he conceived works based on the segmentation of time and the laws of mathematical permutation. In 1971, he discovered the ancient traditions of Afghanistan and, involving embroiderers in the creation of his works, he initiated a process based on the temporal gap between conception and execution.
Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) approached art as a self-taught artist, with an early interest in the research of Gaston Bachelard. His initial works were three-dimensional pieces derived from common everyday objects, which positioned him as a key figure in the Arte Povera movement (1967). He delved into the concept of identity (1968) and the biology of the human body in "two-handed writing" performances (1970-75) and sculpture. Intrigued by postal methods and arithmetic, he conceived works based on the segmentation of time and the laws of mathematical permutation. In 1971, he discovered the ancient traditions of Afghanistan and, involving embroiderers in the creation of his works, he initiated a process based on the temporal gap between conception and execution.
PAOLO MUSSAT SARTOR
Paolo Mussat Sartor was born in Turin in 1947, where he currently lives and works. A self-taught photographer, he began his photographic journey in 1966. In 1968, he started collaborating with Gian Enzo Sperone and had the opportunity to photograph Italian and foreign artists who were exhibiting their works in Sperone's gallery during those years. Mussat Sartor exhibited and published portraits of artists, and documents artworks in art catalogs and specialized magazines worldwide. He also contributed to art and architecture magazines such as Domus, Abitare, Vogue, Casa Vogue, and Ottagono. In 1979, the publishing house Stampatori released his book 'Paolo Mussat Sartor Fotografo 1968/1978. Arte e Artisti in Italia,' which documents ten years of collaboration with several contemporary Italian artists. Simultaneously, starting from 1970, he focuses on his own artistic research, which evolved through the language of photography. Since 1985, he has been experimenting with photo-printing techniques, using colored pigments and mixed techniques to create unique pieces.
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ENZO CUCCHI
Enzo Cucchi was born in Morro D'Alba (An) in 1949. Very young he's been part of Transavanguardia, a neoespressionistic paint current.
In 1994 he developed the iconic system of the Santa Maria degli Angeli church, on the Tamaro Mount, Lugano.
Considered the most visionary artist among exponents of the Transavanguardia, in the 1980s Enzo Cucchi became internationally renowned. In the late 1970s, he moved to Rome and temporarily abandoned poetry to devote himself almost exclusively to the visual arts. Here Cucchi made contact with the artists Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia, with whom he established dialectical and intellectual exchanges.
Cucchi sees painting as a means of bringing together a number of forms, concepts, and materials, using the invasive expression of gesture, through which the canvas becomes a receptacle of images and thoughts, the vehicles of a discourse frayed into a thousand suspensions. The presence of disparate symbols, of a classical or dreamlike matrix, torn from the present or memory, overlap and interrelate in the chromatic fabric from which they appear to emerge. The loss of spatial-temporal coordinates and the continuous incursion into a cultural territory and that of the emotions coincides with an unruly use of colours thickened and then streaked, violent and then sketchy and with a wide range of artistic techniques, such as painting, ceramics, mosaic, and bronze. His interest in the interaction between different arts and disciplines has led him to work in diverse fields (from the visual arts to architecture, design and fashion), and to grasp the importance and fertility of these encounters.
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PAOLO CANEVARI
Paolo Canevari is one of the internationally renowned artists of his generation, known for his use of different materials and media, such as animation, drawing, video, sculpture, and installations. The artist presents easily recognizable symbols or commonplaces to evoke concepts such as religion, urban myths of happiness, or the great principles underlying creation and destruction. His work appears as a synthesis of linguistic expressions developed from the 1960s onwards and knows no boundaries of genre, ranging from drawing to video, from installation to performance. The primary and simple materials that make up his works are related to the concept of representation and serve as 'keys' that allow for infinite possibilities of interpretation. At the same time, they testify to the continuous metamorphosis of matter, whose instability is synonymous with openness to different interpretations.
LU.PA
Through the relationship with the "other," intrinsic to the nature of the duo, LU.PA explores dynamics, languages, and tools of the contemporary world in order to analyze the systems that regulate current relationships. This is why LU.PA's projects originate from performative actions, rituals, during which the audience becomes an integral part of the process of constructing a work of art. Their union was officially announced in 2018, marking the birth of LU.PA through a visual manifesto, a 24-hour performance called OLO, during which the two artists engaged in a dance of drawing. For this purpose, a white structure was built, overlooking the street at Spazio Y in Rome. In July 2018, LU.PA was invited to Spoleto, Italy, to participate in ASTRA VOL.I, as part of the Festival dei due Mondi, where they created Luco, which is a multimedia installation, and a performance called Parla.
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