GIOVANNI OBERTI // LAGHI DI ACETO

Giovani Oberti // Lakes of vinegar is an exhibition made up of several elements that reconstruct a landscape.

Oberti works to provide the spectator with a higher point of view, embodied by the flight of a birth, imagining a wider perspective which puts together the human being and the surrounding organic and inorganic elements. Through the expansion of the natural sight, Oberti allows the view to create an overall horizon which brings again the human to observe himself within a ‘withered’ landscape. The whole vision simultaneously develops across three lines perceived by the spectators, thus creating a third gaze projected in the time over a temporary vision, an eye which imagines the future and tries to feel its atmosphere.

This shift of viewpoint allows to reflect on the performative elements of the view and induces to think of attention as a turning point through which it is possible to observe yourself inside an enviornment in radical mutation.

The exhibition is composed of objects and organic matters organized on the TILE’s floor. The objects are used both as topographical hyperrealistic landmarks that as elements without a functionality, becoming natural and artificial media for reading a landscape. The organic matters and especially vinegar, are witnesses of a ripening, a particular transformation during the time which, even if preserves an information memory, is subject to a costant formal fission which changes a future image of the materials.

Lakes of vinergar “will be an exhibition to be seen from above, or rather, a show seen looking down. Like the flight of a bird in the skies of a natural landscape, a withered and faded landscape like in autumn, exhaling now acrid smell like vinegar”.