Luca Cutrufelli
dal 11/1/2013 al 22/2/2013
Segnalato da
11/1/2013
Luca Cutrufelli
Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
La Palude. The installation media immediately dominates the space by its evocative power: it represents an achievement, a synthesis of a series of syllogisms inspired by the context and the human experience of the artist. The works on paper become clues to reconstruct the mental journey of a philosophical nature.
Luca Cutrufelli's work is closely linked to places he is invited to show and develops in doing so his quest to constantly search for a deeper meaning, a point of view of both historical and social events.
The installation media, often used by the artist, immediately dominates the space by its evocative power: it represents an achievement, a synthesis of a series of syllogisms inspired by the context and the human experience of the artist, that invades the work by making it even more mysterious.
Works on paper that accompany the installation become clues to reconstruct the mental journey of a philosophical nature. From a black coal, which is an absolute whole, the artist, with a simple eraser makes shapes, traces of light to guide us to an understanding. Indeed, Luca Cutrufelli does not draw what he wants us to see, on the contrary, he clears out of a context leaving only the present action.
«La Palude» (the swamp in Italian) refers to the stagnant portion of the soul, where the worst feelings accumulate. Suddenly, pieces detach themselves from the mass, transform, and change. As at the end of a volcanic explosion, from the same material, the soul can generate contradictory feelings: some are dark, heavy (obsidian) which can only dive deep and settle, others light (pumice) resurface and due to their surface, they become scars of their past.
Maria Chiara Monteleone-Travia
Luca Cutrufelli (Italy, 1982) graduated in civil engineering at the Università degli studi di Messina (Rome, Italy), lives and works in Palermo, Italy. «Mein Gebiet», Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena, Italy (2012), «Was once a future», dans le quartier de San Lorenzo, Rome, Italie (2010)
Image: Sans titre, 2012. Installation pumice, obsidian, and water receptacle, dimension variable
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