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Igor Grigoletto
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“Grigoletto's works become contemporary tables, artifacts of a mysterious phrasing, harbingers of an encrypted message which, unknown, must still be brought to light as much as art brings it to us.”
After the initial pictorial informal parenthesis, in which immediately, however, his energetic expressiveness showed his propensity for a visual dimension of more intimate and rigorous, reasoned and measured, tension, Igor Grigoletto abandoned the path of painting on "chromatic substance" to arrive, step by step, series after series, to a language that fully belonged to him and responded to his desire to define arguments and narratives within an objective space and time, increasingly suitable for universal sharing. He considers, in this way, the dimension of the work as a border and crossing line that, thanks to this archetypal sense of its inspiration, could embrace, with the conformation of a map and a single mental geography, the emotions, the knowledge and the singular subjective experiences. The mechanism for obtaining this was the most classical reduction of removing, subtracting the surpluses, to let the essential and substantial elements emerge for his expressive research.
LACQUERED GLASS 004 | Glass
$600
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
The reduction of the superfluous and of the "decorative" body was a fundamental point in being able to fully free the gestures. This allowed him not only to concentrate on those narrative resources most suited to his ideas and considerations, but also to be able to open his inventiveness to a chorus of materials that went beyond the more canonical binomial, in the painting, of “canvas-frame”. The fear of not certifying the painter's artistic assumption precisely with the "picture" has admitted all those "exceptions" that have become for him the founding point: here then appearing crusher cases, metal nets, tables, glass, metal shapes, a different set of supports that welcome every slightest variation of his artistic action. In some cases, the development of color also embraced metallic forms, minimal and simple, which formed the basis for a series of sculptural works.
LACQUERED GLASS 008 | Glass
$600
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
The process he adopted - as the summary testimonies of this first reasoned Monography clarify - has, therefore, given space to essentiality as a means of overloading every element present with maximum sense. He then followed those traces, in some embryonic cases grown in the solid logic of his coherence, to purge precisely the superfluous and useless data that imprisoned his artistic research in a certain academicism and, directed in a path of renunciation and equal affirmation, he led to that evolution which, germinated and strengthened work after work, was constituted as the certainty of each subsequent direction and intent. In this way he found his own artistic, aesthetic and expressive identity.
“Grigoletto was not afraid to wait for everything, as shown in the different series, to have a balance and a meaning.”
The change concerned supports and materials, but above all the fundamental theme of his iconography: if the sign value of his painting had, in fact, the desire for a dramatic and quivering uncontrollable pulsation, the reduction of that sign, open to a proliferating number of variations, has made it a changeable code and, even if reduced, has defined the most widely reflective sphere of its doing. The pictorial sign has become a physical, material, tangible, effective, resonant presence: the drawing of color has found its possibility to "draw" its presence through the use of a colored thread that wraps, groups, stratifies, concentrates in an evolutionary group of presences that break into the silent and inert space of its supports.
HE WHO LOVES LIVES | Glass
$1,200
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
LACQUERED GLASS 2020 | Glass
$600
Grigoletto began to "weave" a prolific set of segments, lines, geometric coordinates, which presented themselves as catalysts of attention, the epicenter of the configuration of a synthetic aesthetic that turns its spring moment into the most classic abstraction and bare minimalism, but he also puts his attention on the sense and weight of emotion and, in this sense, his communicative desire does not freeze in an icy sense of absence, always finding a vibration of emotion.
“The support, with essential purity, is an active and not passive material, capable of receiving the rhythm of ‘design’ which is a specific presence within the void and the coordinates that delimit the space in which it can now, time after time, arrange.”
“Compositional lines change and, over time, have been able to determine a sort of increase in this geometric-sign alphabet which, combined with the dutiful pronouncement of color, has been prepared in a sort of communicative code, an idiom to be deciphered and observed.”
The imprecision, the consumed detail, the originality of the materials determines a sense of "warmth" that adds another potential to the choice of extreme simplification that the artist has consciously developed: this set brings back an instinctive gesture to rediscover the inspiration of memory and unconscious sharing with the imagination of the observer, who is immediately led to question himself on that complex and mysterious choreography of signs shown to his eyes.
AMORE | Glass
$1,200
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
The single element seems to be the primary clue for a writing/score that needs to clarify its thought and reflection through an acquired and balanced complexity that has led, therefore, Grigoletto to insert more scriptural elements to the inside of the same work. We are witnessing a prevalence of these geometric writing, junction lines, ganglia activators of attention, markers of equilibrium of an intelligible energy, so the pinned elements find an order which, emphasizing the diversity and variation that attests them in the same active field, re-proposes a further order to that idea of being themselves a simulacrum of a language.
LACQUERED GLASS 005 | Glass
$600
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
A code similar to Braille and Morse, made up of elements that catalyze an expressive potential and summarize it into experiences so that each work can now be a primary element of a dialogue through images and inserts its own single proposition into a flow of thoughts that have determined the well-founded basis of their communicative aesthetics reverberate in a complete narration.
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
LOVE | Glass
$600
“I waited, finding the right moment, letting things mature with the right time.”
LACQUERED GLASS 006 B | Glass
$300
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
The artist has chosen to focus on those recurring elements that in each of his works gradually emerged as constant presences, focal points to concentrate the strength aimed at the exercise of imposing the balanced sound of geometry on the gaze, not in an emotional-sentimental sense, but to undermine the logic and bring the image to a reading that is related to the intellectual modalities of written characters. Languages, in their alphabetical declination, denounce a different articulation of signs behind which words, phrases and thoughts are hidden.
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
LACQUERED GLASS 006 "S" | Glass
$300
All the intentions that the artist has now channeled into a solid research maturity, whose "task" is only at the beginning, are connected to this tribulation of the sign: in the pages of this monograph, we have the testimony of the constant questioning with which Grigoletto, over time, has believed in his sentiment never abandoning his artistic vocation. Time and the circumstances of life and existence - which affect each of us - have perhaps stemmed, held back his pro-positive will, but they certainly have not blocked it. Going, with foresight, beyond any circumstantial probability of opportunity.
LACQUERED GLASS 013 | Glass
$600
Overcoming limits and boundaries, geometries find themselves in dialogue in the works of Igor Grigoletto, giving life to interpenetration games between lines and shapes. Talifusions are central to his research, which is based on the bond or, more specifically, on the union between man and any possible feeling. sending coded messages to humanity through invented alphabets. Reflective mirrors and lacquered glass capable of being luminous, conceptually become geometric planes on the qualities.
“Grigoletto has fulfilled and respected the desire, never subjected to rectification or, worse still, renunciation, to turn to art to express his ideas, thoughts and the desire to express himself in this way.”
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