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from minimalism To The through an optical-perceptual message
expansion of maTTer originating from the harmony between
space and matter; he establishes an
During my curatorial activity I emotional and conceptual dialogue
have always been looking for with the user; he is anchored in a
something in the artists that reflected universal dimension of art. In his works
part of me, of my unconscious, and that’s he exalts, among infinite spaces, the
how I came in contact and appreciated colors of his own experience, and reveals
the art of Vinicio Momoli. Since he was to us how, in the field of sensations
young he was fascinated by the beauty and perceptions of life, everything
of his city and an unbridgeable thirst is intertwined and compensated;
for knowledge led him to deal with with random, monochromatic and
other artistic and cultural realities such contrasting shapes, it creates an
as Paris and New York; this is a path unrepeatable movement of color and
characterized by a continuous evolution matter, based on the feelings that man
and an assiduous experimentation lives in the globe. The artist uses rubber,
of mostly industrial materials. In this a material coming from natural and
historical period, where an unstoppable synthetic polymers; he chooses it for its
process of globalization is becoming flexibility, he assembles and manipulates
more intense, new ideas are born and it for its purposes up to the genesis of
converted, but the artistic process the work; the color becomes a vivid and
that spread in the 60s and 70s, with harmonious contrasting element, but
the affirmation of new avant-garde specifically goes beyond its role and,
such as Minimal Art, art conceptual with a strong manual skill, it turns into
and Land Art, remains of fundamental a creative substance. The geometry
importance for today’s experiments. therefore loses its rigidity, expanding its
VinicioMomolifollows a minimalist possible variations in the form, which
thought. In his current works, the consequently becomes softer and
awareness of the conceptfocused on concretely active.
the “object-space-user” relationship The use of rubber leads to the creation
characteristic of minimalist research, is of sculptural shapes, generating a play
evident; it generates aesthetic works of of volumes, compactness and sensitivity;
our time and involves the spectator in it basically represents a mysterious
an energetic play of volumetric planes Vinicio Momoli, senza titolo, 1991. Ferromalta imaginary reality; it generates, without
and concrete materiality; there is a any premeditation in the forms, an art
return to the element and manual skills. that emphasizes the vital content of the
His art is implanted in the community individual and communicates a positive
with a creative and significant presence, message.
Espansione materica, 2019. Gomma colorata
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