/ Italy
L’infinito, 2023
lightbox
cm 30 × 70 × 10
sculpture and installation
second prize
A lightbox mimics the appearance of an optometric table, in which the denotative, exact value of the letters on which we test our vision faculties becomes a trap. A paradox of the illegible, with and without sight. From the exorcization of the danger taken by the artist at a young age of losing sight, to the collective exorcism of a catastrophe of the visible theorized by Baudrillard.
Alessandro D’Aquila (1989) is an artist from Abruzzo who lives in Milan. His work is transdisciplinary, and often anti-visual. He often uses graphic elements in installation apparatuses, but even when he resorts to two-dimensional tools, they are placed in destabilizing perspectives: mega-screens in Times Square or floating billboards off Miami Beach; advertising brands “sabotaged” through the use of Braille, which nullifies the persuasive faculties of the visual; wearable projects, such as the one dedicated to Alexis Pinturault for Colmar (2021); and finally with nfts, which in art are used as certification of authenticity guaranteed by digital blockchains, completely disengaged from the level of the visible. For Map3 he presents a lightbox that mimics the appearance of an optometric table, in which the denotative, exact value of the letters on which we test our faculties of vision becomes a trap: in their place, the Leopard poem The infinite, antonomasia of the poetic, moreover partially transcribed in Braille. A paradox of the illegible, with and without sight. From exorcizing the danger taken at a young age of losing sight, to the collective exorcism of a catastrophe of the visible theorized by Baudrillard.