Federico Maddalozzo
dal 5/3/2008 al 18/4/2008
Segnalato da
5/3/2008
Federico Maddalozzo
Galerie Madonna#Fust, Bern
Artist demonstrates how art today can deal with the question of light and colour in a clever and convincing way. His works can be described as trial set-ups to prove to us that colour is a vague, indeterminable thing indeed.
In his works Federico Maddolozzo demonstrates how art today can deal with
the question of light and colour in a clever and convincing way.
As with the Old Masters or the impressionists it is the visible of the
surface that fascinates him, although he is no painter. His interest does
not lie in craft or skill, but the phenomenon, for whose analysis he uses
colour in the form of painted objects and the element of light as media of
depiction. His works can be described as trial set-ups to prove to us that
colour is a vague, indeterminable thing indeed.
Different factors influence the impression we get of the tone of a colour.
Besides light it is ambient colour and space, at the same time colour also
influences the space it appears in. Both these things are inextricably bound
up with each other, just as language and context are inseparable notions,
and what is more, everything is subject to continous change. Codes
therefore, no matter whether they relate to colour or language, are neither
universal nor constant, their usage and meaning determined by individual,
national and cultural fashions and conventions.
But what meaning do they assume when transplanted to a different place?
Opening Day: 6 March 2008, 6 pm - 9 pm
Projektraum Madonna#Fust
Rathausgasse 14 CH-3011 Bern
free admission