11.11.2010 \\ 18.03.2011
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.
Renato Leotta (Turin, 1982, lives and works in Turin) observes the landscape and notes down its modulations, isolates elements and attempts a total vision representing its dissolve and synthesis. In the room where the Wall Drawing by Sol Lewitt is, the artist shows a double installation: on one side the films Argento, in which the artist includes few details of a presumed 18th-century promenade – the palm trees, the visit to the aquarium – in the Villa Comunale. On the other side Napoli – a piece made of the royal tweed fabric from neapolitan ‘camicerie’, a monochrome watercolour wall and a spray painting – in which forms and shades of colour are back again but undergo a process of dissolve. Attempting a structure and its inaccuracy.
All images Courtesy Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli
© Danilo Donzelli
