Description
The monograph documents the exhibition, held at the Gliacrobati Gallery in Turin, dedicated to the Apocalypse cycle by Mauro Gottardo, an extraordinary artist for the quality of the visual language capable of showing both his most intimate fears and knowledge and a broad and original graphic and calligraphic repertoire.
The volume documents an inclusive project that proposes important meaningful connections between Contemporary Art and arts considered marginal such as Art Brut, Outsider Art, Irregular Art; a cultural enterprise aware that art is also made up of people capable of disrupting acquired certainties precisely when, today more than ever, they are put into crisis by unexpected changes in the fields of public health, the economy and social coexistence.
The exhibition is an invitation to cultural institutions and individuals to use this difficult time dominated by international conflicts to look into the most hidden corners of independent cultural production where intellectual energy, mastery and visions capable of commenting on current affairs from new angles, sometimes dazzling.
The Apocalypse [2008-2015] by Mauro Gottardo is a visionary work full of symbolic references, often prophetic, literary, religious, sexual and political, composed of 270 elements of different dimensions: human figures, mythical animals, repeating symbols and they alternate on a carpet of visual writings, often traced on recycled paper. Thus the Apocalypse becomes a secret archive of testimonies, connections, premonitions, referable to the threat of power in all its aspects: from the economic, political and cultural one to the aggression towards human physical and mental health.
This volume was made by the Gliacrobati Gallery, Turin.
