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Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown, 1969
In comodato presso
GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Descrizione
Silver gelatin print
Dimensioni
38.58inch x 25.39inch
Numero elementi
1
Categoria
fotografia
Credits
©Archivio Claudio Abate - Courtesy GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
L'artista
In a 2007 interview, in response to a question about what he was working on at that moment, Claudio Abate responded, “I am working on irony. A key to the interpretation of the reality that is capable of raising me out of the sadness
of our time, without being forced to bury my head in the sand like an ostrich. I prefer allusions to declamations, they are more erotic.”
(Codognato, M., “Interview with Claudio Abate,” in Bonito Oliva, A., ed., Claudio Abate, Fotografo. Mart: Rovereto, 2007).
Looking at Abate’s photographs, one would be tempted to say that irony, far from being the theme of just his recent research, is rather an attitude that has accompanied him since his earliest works devoted to artists and their art. [...]
Opere correlate
GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
Via Magenta, 31
10128 Torino.
