Aldo Mondino. Maestro di Fantasmagorie
from 20 November 2010 to 20 February 2011
Torino
Aldo Mondino. Maestro di Fantasmagorie
From 20 November 2010, MACA (Acri Museum of Contemporary Art) will be hosting a solo exhibition dedicated to the great Turin-based artist Aldo Mondino, undoubtedly one of the most eclectic Italian artists of his generation and a leading figure in the remarkable creative boom of the 1960s in the Piedmontese capital.
Multifaceted, endowed with a vast and profound international culture, an ironic gaze capable of producing elegant and refined double meanings, and, above all, a tireless curiosity, Mondino has never ceased to reinvent himself and his art throughout his career. His artistic journey has been marked by a constant flow of ever-new inspirations and disparate influences that the artist has been able to absorb, assimilate and subsequently reinterpret through his original and unmistakable style; from his early days in Paris at Atelier 17 under the surrealist and expressionist painter William Heyter, and his studies in mosaic under the guidance of the futurist Gino Severini, through a referential phase with strong pop art references, to the subsequent orientalist period that began in the 1970s with the ‘King’ series and continued with the ‘Dervishes’ series and his whimsical and daring formal experiments.
It was precisely this essential inclination towards the manipulative study of innovative artistic materials and media – yet never detached from everyday reality, his primary source of inspiration ever since the artist’s association with the Arte Povera group – that led him to create his famous sculptures in chocolate and cane sugar, or works made from nougat wrappers, horse saddles or smoked herrings.
Five years after his death, MACA – thanks to its collaboration with Walter Vaghi’s foundry and with the supportof the Mondino Archive – will host a collection of twenty large-scale works, including sculptures and paintings, capable of perfectly conveying the multifaceted, witty and exotic character of the great Turin-born artist.
Echoing a verse by Arthur Rimbaud, Mondino too could be described as a ‘master of phantasmagoria’, an artist who, through his fascinating, ironic and seductive works, seems to address his audience just as the French poet did in ‘Night in Hell’: ‘Listen!... I have all the talents!’
Multifaceted, endowed with a vast and profound international culture, an ironic gaze capable of producing elegant and refined double meanings, and, above all, a tireless curiosity, Mondino has never ceased to reinvent himself and his art throughout his career. His artistic journey has been marked by a constant flow of ever-new inspirations and disparate influences that the artist has been able to absorb, assimilate and subsequently reinterpret through his original and unmistakable style; from his early days in Paris at Atelier 17 under the surrealist and expressionist painter William Heyter, and his studies in mosaic under the guidance of the futurist Gino Severini, through a referential phase with strong pop art references, to the subsequent orientalist period that began in the 1970s with the ‘King’ series and continued with the ‘Dervishes’ series and his whimsical and daring formal experiments.
It was precisely this essential inclination towards the manipulative study of innovative artistic materials and media – yet never detached from everyday reality, his primary source of inspiration ever since the artist’s association with the Arte Povera group – that led him to create his famous sculptures in chocolate and cane sugar, or works made from nougat wrappers, horse saddles or smoked herrings.
Five years after his death, MACA – thanks to its collaboration with Walter Vaghi’s foundry and with the supportof the Mondino Archive – will host a collection of twenty large-scale works, including sculptures and paintings, capable of perfectly conveying the multifaceted, witty and exotic character of the great Turin-born artist.
Echoing a verse by Arthur Rimbaud, Mondino too could be described as a ‘master of phantasmagoria’, an artist who, through his fascinating, ironic and seductive works, seems to address his audience just as the French poet did in ‘Night in Hell’: ‘Listen!... I have all the talents!’
Aldo Mondino. Maestro di Fantasmagorie
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