Vittorio Santoro’s second solo exhibition at the gallery entitled “Le grand paysage (pour un jour)” revolves around the figure of the artist, the politics and poetics of his practice.
The new ensemble of works indicates the artist’s on-going concern to develop adequate sculptural forms for a diverse set of states and mechanisms. The works allude to visible acts and silences, meaningful gestures and apparent voids, and to the potentials ascribed to art’s social function. The various pieces testify to issues such as the poetry, the force, or the potential agency of art on the public, but also to the missed opportunities, failures and hermetic moments within the ‘large landscape’ of the artist’s doing.
In pushing his search for a diversified, and at times heteroclite artistic language further than ever, Vittorio Santoro comes to present new and highly singular works that make these issues palpable like a choir of different voices. The works articulate these aspects in ways that shift between theatricality and genuineness. Each work is imbued with a high degree of specificity, resulting in absorbing gestures that are narrative or descriptive, then again taking an anti-subjective stance and obeying a more condensed or even enigmatic code.
- Daniel Kurjakovic