Gintaras Didžiapetris

In conclusion of their residency at Fondazione Morra Greco, on November 11th, artists Gintaras Didžiapetris and Renato Leotta will present the works they produced during their stay in Naples.
In a residency focused on research and the production of works, the artistic process can but stem from a strong reference to reality, from the way artists experience it, especially from an empirical viewpoint.
However, the works produced by Gintaras Didžiapetris and Renato Leotta during their period of residency elude the risk of being a mere representation of reality and shift the attention on the degree of abstraction contained in it.

In a complex time and context, the observation is replaced by a continuous dislocation of the gaze and the all-absorbing vision by dispersion. Fragments of reality and single forms get the upper hand.
The artists work out structures or grids filtering the vision and subject these elements to a new set of relations. The approach of the artist gradually shifts from the empirical to the imaginary level. Reality withdraws from itself.

The installations presented in the exhibition by the two artists are made up of varied elements, extrapolated from reality but reorganized on the basis of connections based on similarity, recurrence or on the assonance between forms and elements coming from different contexts.

Gintaras Didžiapetris (Vilnius, 1985, lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania) installation, in the entrance room of the Foundation, is composed of a wall drawing titled Blind Compass, a variant of an old work put in relation to Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #1267: Scribbles belonging to the Foundation collection, a new film, Pigeon, shot at the Capodimonte park, and a photographic work. The artist matches images with abstract forms in order to see how abstraction directs reality, what physical shapes it can assume and how it can inform social processes in exchange.

All images Courtesy Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli
© Danilo Donzelli