Mario Airò Aurora

cm 20 x 263 x 13

A pupil of Luciano Fabro at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, and one of the founders, in 1989, of the self-managed cultural space at Via Lazzaro Palazzi 19 in Milan, Mario Airò belongs to a group of artists who came to prominence at the beginning of the 1990s. The use of film, music, and literature in his poetics is accompanied by the creation of multisensorial environments where the spectator is introduced to a perceptual and immersive experience. Indeed, a common feature of his practice are his collaborations with musicians, poets, and writers, where the performative aspect blends in with that of the environment, with frequent citations of works from art history, music, cinema, and literature. The light installation "Aurora" consists of a wooden shelf fixed to the wall, with a molded outer edge resembling the horizon line of a distant landscape, and a yellow neon illuminating it from behind. The light evokes the different moments of dawn, with a play of effects that short circuits the three-dimensionality of a stereotyped “picture postcard” image with references to the researches of Minimalist and Conceptual Art.

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C. D’Orazio (ed.), Benvenuti!, Rome 2000. A. Pace (ed.), Mario Airò. La stanza dove Marsilio sognava di dormire… e altri racconti, exhibition catalogue (Turin, GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea), Turin 2001. S. Pinto, A. Mattirolo (eds.), Il Premio per la giovane arte italiana del Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee 2000. Migrazioni e Multiculturalità, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee), Turin 2001, pp. 18-19; 48.

Foto Patrizia Tocci

Purchased from Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

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