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Piazza Vittorio Veneto 14, 10123 Torino
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Om Bosser Il Dilemma del Porcospino, ovvero: disegnare i suoni e altre storie
Fourteen years after his last solo show, Om Bosser (Turin, 1949), long time resident of Palermo, returns to his native city with an exhibition of work at the Overstudio. The pieces, dating from 1986 to 2001, have been amassed under the title The Porcupine’s Dilemma, or: Drawing Sound and Other Stories. Since 1986, Bosser has produced a total of around 150 works on paper in this “series,” which constitutes a kind of “memory bank” for the artist—an “encyclopedia” of sorts whose pages have been written one after the other, day after day. Thirty of these works are on display at the Overstudio.
The catalogue text, Su Bosser e sui Porcosipini (On Bosser and On Porcupines), is by the young, but talented, critic from Palermo, Vinny Scorsone. The “dilemma” of the title is resolved by “trying and trying again” (as the motto of the sixth century Florentine Academy of Cimento decreed), until the “perfect” solution is found, until one porcupine is “correctly” placed beside another—the “next” porcupine. This hypothesis is implicit in Bosser’s work. Each piece is an eight-color, hand-printed lithograph, representing one of two subjects. Yet, although all the works are produced using a similar “mixed technique,” the artist gives them individual character with his painterly and graphic interventions. These interventions are like symbolic esoteric references, labyrinthine depictions, cryptically marked spirals, or the “modulated” transcriptions of significant texts. These multifarious elaborations and iconographic additions are designed to increase the number of possible solutions to Bosser’s enigmatic “dilemma.” Bosser’s argument is a provocative one—each of us has Porcupine dilemmas to resolve—presented with originality and absorbing ideational inspiration.
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Il Dilemma del Porcospino - invitation
2001
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