INCORPOREO
An endless journey
A silhouette from human contours. A man? Perhaps a shadow. The doubt remains. This figure walks slowly, suspended and lightweight, satisfying our eyes of viewers loads of expectations and questions. It emerges from the darkness and longs to a new glow. It comes from the darkness, to disappear in the fading light. A transfigured man whose body is cut out through a curtain of mesh and towels. He is Lazarus.
Giorgio Tentolini think the man resurrected by Christ, the first to come back after his meeting with your resurrection to a new life after death. A soul that returns to embrace their meat. The artist uses him as a metaphor for the fate of each of us.
In this direction it is oriented his reflection: the journey that we talk about what becomes of man in life. The route, long or short, the individual existence. One man that applies to everyone. A journey that for each consists however of different experiences, but which is preserved equally expectant toward that something greater which is the mystery of the eternal imponderable. final hope of each.
Its not a simple iconographic choice, yet the materials of his work, the expertise and the poetry of its implementation, can be intriguing and persuasive form; It offers us a real image and engaging, not a hallucination or an empty mirage and fatuous. This is because, in a time-aura, the center retains the sole protagonist own man and recognition of his journey to and from the unknown. A man identified although intentionally stripped from its material contingencies, a heroic figure, naked, free and sincere, yet even so much discernable in images of history: it was said of Lazarus, and we also - as it suggests the artist himself - the ' Adam expelled from Eden by Masaccio; the figures of the flood of workers Pelizza Volpedo seeking a ransom for a brighter future; We are the revolution of Beuys, L'homme qui marche di Alberto Giacometti. Many other examples crowd our memory encountering the figure he is proposing. Suggestiona much a certain familiarity with the contemporary digital images, perhaps, in the warp and woof, you can see the pixels of the world and the virtual reality that seems forcefully oust the real one. We see then the identity of a man dehumanized and its fragility in yielding to the lure of new demiurges. In geometrical shapes, the result of informal mathematical calculations and alchemy, you see a mosaic man, computerized, made of small pieces that always conceal the danger to dissolve and vanish. Leaving no trace of himself after losing the way. The Tentolini man also refer you to the weakness of contemporary man, trapped in falsehood, whose fate remains of hope always to get back to consider the greatest mystery that pervades his life and reveals his death. Not in an atmosphere of apocalyptic anxiety, but with a desire for full and strong awareness.
A human figure that becomes threshold crossing point or transition of our own being. The image that appears is ready to escape again, the limited pilgrimage of life to the stage of a much longer journey. In expectation of that awareness that wraps itself in silence and of which, no one ever has been able to give us testimony. The final destination of the journey that is resolved only between us and the absolute we stand before. Tentolini speaks of life and death, the beginning and the end. renewal speaks and tells rinascita. The incessant human existential journey, and, using a mesh, which layered leaves emerge for sweaters, increasingly broad and free, the outline of his subject making escape to the surface, suggests a figure more labile and immaterial.
Who is the protagonist of this renewal of life, this eternal rebirth? Who finds himself the star of this new journey without end?
The man or, perhaps, his soul, of which Tentolini, already offers us its possible and labile footprint.
Matteo Galbiati
extract from the catalog:
Premio arti visive San Fedele 2011/12
E USCIMMO A RIVEDER LE STELLE - IL VIAGGIO
23 May to 7 July 2012
Via Hoepli 3 a-b - 20121 Milano
A silhouette from human contours. A man? Perhaps a shadow. The doubt remains. This figure walks slowly, suspended and lightweight, satisfying our eyes of viewers loads of expectations and questions. It emerges from the darkness and longs to a new glow. It comes from the darkness, to disappear in the fading light. A transfigured man whose body is cut out through a curtain of mesh and towels. He is Lazarus.
Giorgio Tentolini think the man resurrected by Christ, the first to come back after his meeting with your resurrection to a new life after death. A soul that returns to embrace their meat. The artist uses him as a metaphor for the fate of each of us.
In this direction it is oriented his reflection: the journey that we talk about what becomes of man in life. The route, long or short, the individual existence. One man that applies to everyone. A journey that for each consists however of different experiences, but which is preserved equally expectant toward that something greater which is the mystery of the eternal imponderable. final hope of each.
Its not a simple iconographic choice, yet the materials of his work, the expertise and the poetry of its implementation, can be intriguing and persuasive form; It offers us a real image and engaging, not a hallucination or an empty mirage and fatuous. This is because, in a time-aura, the center retains the sole protagonist own man and recognition of his journey to and from the unknown. A man identified although intentionally stripped from its material contingencies, a heroic figure, naked, free and sincere, yet even so much discernable in images of history: it was said of Lazarus, and we also - as it suggests the artist himself - the ' Adam expelled from Eden by Masaccio; the figures of the flood of workers Pelizza Volpedo seeking a ransom for a brighter future; We are the revolution of Beuys, L'homme qui marche di Alberto Giacometti. Many other examples crowd our memory encountering the figure he is proposing. Suggestiona much a certain familiarity with the contemporary digital images, perhaps, in the warp and woof, you can see the pixels of the world and the virtual reality that seems forcefully oust the real one. We see then the identity of a man dehumanized and its fragility in yielding to the lure of new demiurges. In geometrical shapes, the result of informal mathematical calculations and alchemy, you see a mosaic man, computerized, made of small pieces that always conceal the danger to dissolve and vanish. Leaving no trace of himself after losing the way. The Tentolini man also refer you to the weakness of contemporary man, trapped in falsehood, whose fate remains of hope always to get back to consider the greatest mystery that pervades his life and reveals his death. Not in an atmosphere of apocalyptic anxiety, but with a desire for full and strong awareness.
A human figure that becomes threshold crossing point or transition of our own being. The image that appears is ready to escape again, the limited pilgrimage of life to the stage of a much longer journey. In expectation of that awareness that wraps itself in silence and of which, no one ever has been able to give us testimony. The final destination of the journey that is resolved only between us and the absolute we stand before. Tentolini speaks of life and death, the beginning and the end. renewal speaks and tells rinascita. The incessant human existential journey, and, using a mesh, which layered leaves emerge for sweaters, increasingly broad and free, the outline of his subject making escape to the surface, suggests a figure more labile and immaterial.
Who is the protagonist of this renewal of life, this eternal rebirth? Who finds himself the star of this new journey without end?
The man or, perhaps, his soul, of which Tentolini, already offers us its possible and labile footprint.
Matteo Galbiati
extract from the catalog:
Premio arti visive San Fedele 2011/12
E USCIMMO A RIVEDER LE STELLE - IL VIAGGIO
23 May to 7 July 2012
Via Hoepli 3 a-b - 20121 Milano
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