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Renato Leotta
Multiverso, 2017fabric and sea water210 x 100 cmCopyright The ArtistThis work is part of a series titled Multiverso. Multiverso (Orizzonti) are obtained by immersion into the sea and then left to dry naturally in the sun. They record the...This work is part of a series titled Multiverso. Multiverso (Orizzonti) are obtained by immersion into the sea and then left to dry naturally in the sun. They record the height of the tides, transcribing a horizon of salt on the surface of the fabric, creating, through the line, a visual division on the fabrics, tracing an ideal horizon that tells the movement of the tides related to the phases of the moon and describes the theme of uncertainty and oscillations within the natural landscape.The passage of water, once the fabric is dried in the sun, thus draws the distinction between the immersed canvas and the sky above.
In harmony with the natural element, the reflection takes shape through nature itself: it is the line that tells the artist's gesture and preserves the memory of the lunar phases that accompanied the creation of the work. The height of the tide, marked by the salt, acts as a trace or photographic negative of the proximity of the moon and the movement of the waves
Referring to the concept of the multiverse - suspended between physics and metaphysics, science and myth - rather than establishing a point of arrival or an axiom of departure, these works evoke possible scenarios. At the heart of the series is in fact the reflection on the concepts of overturning and perspective, and some of the possible ramifications that derive from it.
The horizon of these works instead traces a degree of inseparability, between earth and sea, sky and earth, nature and culture, which in a perspective displaced from the dominant vision, cancels the distinction drawn by the border. Land and sea, with the epistemological conflict that distinguishes them, cancel each other out in a unified vision, that of man and nature.
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