Fausto Bertasa
Anthology

from 10/05/2008
to 10/09/2008

The luminous ON installation, which Fausto Bertasa created in the early 1990s, opens his solo exhibition at the Jade Art Gallery. For the opening of the gallery, the artist created a large site-specific work, the pictorial installation Antologia, which traces and reinterprets the universe of signs populating the artist’s works, from children’s drawings to handwriting that spells out personal messages, from the signs of multiethnic encounters to the fragmentation and reassembly of the archaeologies of information technology, and then on to the coldness of newspaper reports. The exhibition continues in the basement level, where the dialogue between the semiotics of digital communication and the systems of meaning underlying equitable trade are intensified. The artist probes the conventional signs amplified by contemporary society, transforming them into traces of possible communications: from scraps of paper – ads, books, newspapers – to cash-register receipts, phone cards, mouse pads, letters and the most recent production, devoted to the multiethnic “other world” of fair trade. In the end, everything blends into the weave of a work of pictorial embroidery that resolves the mystery of a polysemic world in the precious significance of painting.

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Opening
Friday 9 May 2008, 6.30 PM
at Jade Art Gallery, Bergamo

Open
Monday/Saturday 9.30 am/12 pm

Artists
Fausto Bertasa

 

Exhibitions
Anthology from 10/05/2008 to 10/09/2008