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Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea
Via della Rocca, 29, 10123 Torino
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Italy
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Hours: Mon.- Sat. 3:30pm-7:30pm and by appointment.
Contact: Alberto Peola
E-mail: a.peola@iol.it
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Elisabetta Di Maggio Il tempo è come il luogo
Curated by Chiara Bertola
“Every day, just as one takes care of a plant, one takes care of one’s work with constancy and precision so that it continues to live, to be active: one makes those small, daily gestures that have no substitute, which are simple yet specific, just as in a ritual that is never repetitive but is simply what it is.”
Elisabetta Di Maggio is showing new works specifically designed for this, her first solo show at the Alberto Peola gallery.
The fundamental element in Di Maggio’s art is time, the fabric of which can be found in almost all her work. With obsessive precision, the artist makes etches and marks in her never-completed work as a record of time’s passage, the onward march of days and months. In reality, however, these cuts are an attempt to carve and mark space in order to keep the fragile perception of her own being at bay. “This work bears witness to the fact that we are nothing more than what we do,” and if we have no proof of our own existence, the ghosts of emptiness, of our own lost frame of reference, takes a distressing hold on us. The paper and soap pieces on show in the gallery are the work of one year, during which period the artist has sought to capture the infinite nature of time within the nets of the finite.
Di Maggio’s chosen path—of obsessive precision and perfection—is one that helps to keep the reality of their opposites at bay: the fear of chaos, the dangers of ambiguity, and the anxiety induced by the infinite. The artist seems to be aware of a loss: that of the value of doing things, of action. Seeking to fight this loss with strength and liberty, she is nonetheless aware of the futility of her gesture, lone witness to a current, necessary, and programmatic maladjustment.
“Man’s eternal mistrust is, in reality, so fragile and tragically pointless. In essence my work is the fruit of an extremely long process of elaboration, which can be destroyed in an instant, thus furnishing a metaphor for the struggle of living in this world.”
Elisabetta Di Maggio was born in Milan in 1964. She lives and works in Venice.
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