Giuliano Bartolozzi
Space Zero
Since the beginning of his career, Giuliano Bartolozzi (Itai, 1947) became interested in photography to develop modes of representation that would allow him to express the real and imaginary. His investigations into the artistic fact lead him to rethink the use of this technique, to transform its application in open field that supports the operation of various means and media. His creative process begins with a selection of images, photographed, drawn, stamped or printed - then mix to create surprising hybridizations remarkably enrich the artistic discourse. Its theme is inspired by the plant world, well describes the tropical flora through its basic components: flowers, fruit, ears, limbs, trees and shrubs, which form the basis of their artistic investigations. The forms emerge from the plane to become a high or low relief, in turn, penetrates space format, fracture, expands, releasing the composition of its conventional boundaries. Thus, cut, sort, structure, and superimposed images crumbles translate into a poetic vision of the natural environment. "Simply put - says the artist - let me suggest reality in an abstract way in which to develop my theme ever: matter and its possibilities. So that really stimulates me rationally and emotionally to find an icon (as in this case, the flower) and use it as symbolic aelemento .... " This is the core that guides your research, virtually embodied in recent exhibition on display at the gallery Spazio Zero, between 17 May and 17 June. The show brought together a collection of works covering drawing, painting and installation techniques that runs through the combination of industrial products that demonstrate both its tangible and intangible aspects. Bartolozzi finish highlights its pure and basic, which gives a visual and conceptual synthesis that bypasses the intellectual affectation. Through meticulous craftsmanship. the operator manipulates the visible and invisible until a result subtle and delicate, but radical and forceful in their positions. From this perspective , its purpose is to highlight the curvature of the ways, the organicism of the figures, the rate which causes the repetition of an image, the contrasts that arise from the clash between land and empty, or between light and dark. In the work known as Valencia, a facility consisting of a single element that is constantly repeated, the artist alludes to the shape of a leaf made in clear acrylic, placed in an orderly and symmetrical about the surface of the wall. For this same reason makes combinations of cardboard, paper and acrylic, in a series of hanging curtains, which manages the passing visual alternations between positive and negative, or between Machizo and mild. The same principle leads to three-dimensional plane, materializes on the canvas monochrome forms that invade the format, as seen in Shrouds, Calco Calco A and B.
approaches in this exhibition is reminiscent of movements, genres and trends from the Western pictorial tradition, either by the use of material unrelated to the Arte Povera, or the recreation of famous themes, as is the case Manet's Olympia, from which it derives the title of this exhibition, as well as the name of the piece who stars in the sample. It is here in a sculpture-installation armed with pieces of wire, paper, plastic and fabric, among other components, arranged in the form of a giant pink. The favorable staging a theatrical reading, as the piece is displayed alone in a separate room illuminated with lights that highlight focal textures and characteristics of its structure. The work rests on two cushions or white cushions, which are arranged lying naked reminds us that Manet painted in 1863 for the Hall of Rejected in Paris. Bartolozzi's Olympia sober and majestic stands amid the architectural enclosure the shelters, and causes us to associations that correspond to the archetypical meanings linked to love and feminine beauty. With the completion of this composition the artist has been able to sublimate the emotion that caused the contemplation of the controversial nude by Manet, which marked, for a long time, its sensitivity as an artist. "The Olympia - confesses - evoked in me a sensual instinct had not previously poured into my work and part of my life. I saw this woman as a flower and transform their reality ...".
Gladis Yunes Yunes
Revista "Art Nexus # 67 December-February 2008
Crónicas page. 159-160.
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