Gregorio Botta
The exhibit features the artist’s new sculptures entitled Dimore: solid cylindrical structures in steel cables gather water and are illuminated by a subdued light which bestows fleeting images upon a glass surface.
On the other hand, in other wall works, the images assume volume and form. The re-occurring materials are those generally used in Botta’s works, especially wax – a preferred material used in all of his works, capable of capturing every sign and conserving the traces – water, which is also utilised in his wall works as well as pigments, carbon black, linen, rice paper and glass.
In the works of Gregorio Botta, time is not an abstract category, rather it is represented as deep space which is of lengthy and undetermined duration, a silence in which one is immersed and patiently indulges and humours.