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L'esposizione Impraticabile is the title of a series of video/computer installations that are the development of earlier works that deal with the relationships between perception, information and reality in our age. The initial idea for this project was conceived in 1990 for the space in the Museum for the Development of Contemporary Art at the University in Rome. Further concepts grew out of the initial idea, one of which was realized in the Communal Gallery in Frankfurt on Main. The last one I realized this year as a virtual space for the Internet.
"The Esposizione Impraticabile was devised from impressions and contemplation about our changing perception that has emerged through the progress of media: our tendency to replace reality with a synthetic world.
Art itself seems to be retreating from its material foundation, a framework that has defined art during the last few centuries, namely the art object. Art emancipates itself from the relation to its objects and pushes on towards an immaterial world. What is interesting about this phenomena is that art seems to be ever more present in our every day life, yet actually continually less present. Contact with art is mediated and the need we have for it is gratified by the overwhelming amount of information that we receive on it. Instead of being able to view the originals we are able to see the medial, however well packaged, art substitutes (just like this page). The information about the experience one should have is the ruling factor in deciding for or against the art object's existence.
The Esposizione Impraticabile installations deal with the above topic: contact with an art object is only possible though its duplicate of medial reproduction. The originals remain, as in the Greek Naos, locked up in a closed space. The general point of departure of these installations is the realization of an exhibit that is not practical, it is impenetrable. It is an exhibit that is closed to the public thereby making direct experience with the exhibited works impossible. The exhibited works in these installations are always the same; twelve paintings that I completed between the years 1985 and 1991 that were realised in a more or less traditional technique.
(Frankfurt 1991)
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Main;
Archive() {
Esposizione Impraticabile() {
}
Mare();
The Negated Room();
Hautnah;
Touch Me;
Stoffwechsel;
Il Sarto Immortale();
Net-Works();
History();
Imprint;