ALBERTO CAVALIERI

I am a visual artist who interrogates the reflexive potentials of matter, space, and ideas. My background in the fields of mechanical engineering and industrial design enable me to explore the contradictions and uncertainties of vital experience in a manner no less creative than technical. My work unfolds, then, in a back and forth between structural rigor and existential ambivalence.
My proposal revolves around the transfiguration and re-signification of objects and materials to challenge logic and underscore their aesthetic and symbolic connotations. I believe that the meaning of all things depends on their contexts and uses. A metal knot is actually a sign that speaks not only of rigidity but also of impossibility. Despite absurd and irreverent premise, an ingot of air is a metaphor for a vital need. A cement module is not only an inert pillar but also a bearer of intangible memory. That is why rigidity must be flexible, why gas must show its solid state, why the bodily must hold the immaterial. Each of those operations embodies our thoughts and turns them into an allegory for our desires.
I envision each project as a conjunction of matter and meaning. I attempt to combine the physical, the technical, and the conceptual, and engage them with fragmentariness, seriality, and accumulation as elements constituent of a totality. Volume, color, and texture are not only the attributes of the material that bears them, but also active signs of intellectual experience.
I am interested in engaging, in my work, things that matter in the contemporary world: survival, scarcity, stock-market speculation, economic value, the sustainability of resources, as well as more specific explorations of art history, technology, and language as models for discursive and cultural articulation.