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Tommaso Gatti Portfolio~2020 2018-2014
Collective Exhibitions Baitball (01) Passaggi
2020~2014 I'll slip an extra shrimp Curated by Out44
on the barbie for you Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Co-curated by Like a Little Museo della Permanente,
Disaster, Pane Project & more Milano
Jan-Mar 2020
Palazzo San Giuseppe, Tones of the stones
Polignano a Mare, Residency curated by
L. Giuranna & C. Foletto
Rhizomeparkinggarage Aug - Sep 2016
Beneath the beach seamless Cava Storica di Trontano
paving stone, Curated by Noah
Travis Phillips and Ian Bruner, Synchronicity
The wrong Biennale, 2019 Residency curated by Fuzao
May - Jun 2016
Prolog Yuliang art centre, Shexhian
Curated by Alexandru Boca M Westlake Gallery, Hangzhou
30 Aug 2019
Lapsus, Timisoara Sfase
Residency Curated by
Digressione E. D'angelo, E. Lemmo,
Curated by O'Dirk G.Paolini, G. Quadri
18-31 Jan 2019 Aug - Sep 2015
Spazio Fico, Milano F.a.s.e, Alzano Lombardo
Ah sì tu io noi Combat Prize
Curated by B. Schroeder Jun - Jul 2014
& P. Consolandi for Traffic Museo G. Fattori, Livorno.
7 - 9 Sep 2018 Winner of Sculpture Prize
Chiesa di San Vito sul Cesano
Ricoh Prize
Daze and Ornament Dec -2014
Curated by A. Lacarpia Spazio Oberdan, Milano
4 - 18 May 2018 Winner of Sculpture Prize
LocaleDue, Bologna
Statement "It then becomes clear and
certain to him that what he
knows is not a sun and an
earth, but only an eye that
sees a sun, a hand that feels an
earth;"
Arthur Schopenhauer
The World As Will And Idea
(2019) Krâsis (2019) Krâsis (2019) Krâsis (2019) Krâsis (2019) Krâsis (2019) Krâsis (2019) Krâsis (2019)
Selected Artworks
2019~2015
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Krâsis Digital Sculpture
Parking Bonola, 2019
Milan - Italy
Krâsis is a work conceived for "Beneath the
beach seamless paving stone", first episode of
Rhizomeparkinggarage curated by Noah Travis Phillips
and Ian Bruner for The wrong Biennale, 2020. Krâsis is a
work with an ambiguous nature whose title, from the
Greek "mixture", refers to the practice of mixing water
and wine in a Crater. Krâsis consists in the distortion of
the digital scan of the clay copy of a Greek crater of the
2th century BC, inserted within a "real" context.
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ndangeredByTheAbuseOfLiberty ( Composition n.1)LibertyMayBeEndangeredByTheAbuseOfLibert
eEndangeredByTheAbuseOfLiberty ( Composition n.1)
Libertymaybeendangeredbytheabuseofliberty
Digital Lettering, 2017
Libertymaybeendangeredbytheabuseofliberty is the title
of a series of sculptures inspired by the homonymous
phrase of the historic president of the United States of
America James Madison. The phrase, a reflection on the
limits and dangers of democracy, has been rewritten
using a font belonging to the "liberty" tradition (the
Italian art nouveau) The phrase takes on a different
meaning to analyze the relationship between style and
inventive freedom, ornament and crime. The series
consists of sculptural compositions in which art nouveau
fragments are reworked and hybridized with elements
belonging to a contemporary decadent imaginary,
to create capricious compositions with aberrant and
monstrous shapes. The artist gives life to objects that Libertymaybeendangeredbytheabuseofliberty
belong to a new style that he calls "Very Liberty". Locale Due, 2018 Composition n.1 (Detail)
Bologna - Italy
yBeEndangeredByTheAbuseOfLiberty ( Composition n.1)LibertyMayBeEndangeredByTheAbuseOfLi
eredByTheAbuseOfLiberty ( Composition n.2) LibertyMayBeEndangeredByTheAbuseOfLiberty ( Co
The series that's currently in progress, was presented
for the first time to the public on the occasion of the
collective exhibition "Daze and Ornaments", curated by
Andrea Lacarpia at Localedue, Bologna.
Here an excerpt of the review appeared on Art Mirror :
"... Therefore the collective highlights the paradoxes of a
present tense among hedonism and decadence (...) In a
reality in which sinuous and soft shapes are pervasively
spread through commodities and technological
devices, the ornament sensuality can acquire a double
significance, sign of well-being and vacuity at the same
time."
Libertymaybeendangeredbytheabuseofliberty
Spazio Fico, 2018 Composition n.2 (Details)
Milano - Italy
Libertymaybeendangeredbytheabuseofliberty
Spazio Fico, 2018 Composition n.2
Milano - Italy
ibertyMayBeEndangeredByTheAbuseOfLiberty ( Composition n.1) LibertyMayBeEndangeredByThe
7) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) At
thanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athanor (2017) Athan
cooks above the same pedestal on which it is exposed.
The work, of which only some digitally altered photos
remain, stages its genesis and raises doubts about a real
separation between the work in its concreteness and
the communicative apparatus that makes possible his
fruition.
Athanor Clay sculpture, bbq skewer,
Pozzo Podestà, 2017 hobo stove and digital fire.
Argentiera - Italy
Athanor is a work realized on the occasion of the artist
residency Almanacco Migratorio, in L' Argentiera. It
is composed of the clay sculpture of a phoenix thatComposition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composi
绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Compo 三绝 is a two-part work realized on the occasion of the
artist residency Synchronicity at the "Yuliang Art Center"
in Shexian, China . The artwork took inspiration by the
tradition of 三绝 (Three Perfections), a Chinese traditional
artistic form that combines landscape painting, poetry
and calligraphy. Meditating on composition - both in
sculptural and poetic terms - I gathered some objects
around the residence, fragments of visible able to recall
三绝 Composition #1 Tree trunk, shop sign,
Yuliang Art Centre, 2016 ornaments, maotai and
Shexian - China cigarettes
the chinese imaginary. Among these, some shop signs,
ideograms that make up a short poem that reads "Home,
ten thousand perfumes." The work by combining natural,
ornamental and graphic elements typical of Chinese
culture, reveals between these formal affinities and the
fascinating repetition of stylistic features.omposition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Composition #1 三绝 Compositio
Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composit
绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Compo
Synchronicity is an artist residence that took place
between May and June 2016. The residence, organized by
Fuzao Studio in collaboration with the Academy of Fine
Arts of Brera and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou
took place in the Yuliang Art Center in Shexhian and
ended with an exhibition at the Moca Westlake Gallery in
Hangzhou.
三绝 Composition #2 Tree trunk, shop sign,
Yuliang Art Centre, 2016 alluminium and flowers
Shexian - ChinaComposition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composition #2 三绝 Composit
'impenetrabile (2016) L'impenetrabile (2016) L'impenetrabile (2016) L'impenetrabile (2016) L'impene
enetrabile (2016) L'impenetrabile (2016) L'impenetrabile (2016) L'impenetrabile (2016) L'impenetrab
on the impenetrable mystery of matter, of erotic and
aesthetic experience.
L'impenetrabile Concrete, zucchini, Durex
Sfiorandoti in superficie eternal pleasure gel
mi sono perso nei meandri
delle mie profondità.
L'impenetrabile consists of a portion of unformed matter
punctured with innumerable holes. From some of these
holes peep out some zucchini, vectors that invite us to
penetrate imaginatively inside the sculpture, to make our
way through its dark tunnels. The materials of which the
work is composed shun the conventional logics of the
sculptural tradition because of their symbolic allegorical
qualities: instruments by virtue of which an idea slowly
takes shape in our imagination. Thus, the zucchini,
wrapped in a layer of Durex Eternal Pleasure Gel, causes
us to perceive the friction of a penetration alluding to
intense pleasures. Title and subtitle, they avoid a simple
denominative function to become a poetic element.
Among the lines of a pathetic loving dedication, there is
a thought capable of opening to innumerable reflectionstacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contac Tommaso Gatti
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20137 Milano, IT
+39 3518001721
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