Renato Leotta. Vittoria sul Sole

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"Dark clouds laden with ash and lapilli erupt from a volcano at the heart of the Mediterranean sea. This new matter, just created by nature, flies, moved by the wind into the Gallery, adhering and erasing all the surfaces."

Renato Leotta is drawn to the natural phenomena, the moon, the stars, the ocean, tides, and plants, all of which are the most prevalent components of Romantic poetry, regularly deployed to metaphorical, allegorical, and ‘objective correlative’ effects. Leotta’s works are acts of observation, due to the use of the landscape as a subject. As an archaeologist of the Real, Leotta tries, through his process of observation, to identify and circumscribe a series of images, visualised through different media, that although being related to a specific time and space, contain a universal character. Moreover, by presenting the viewer with images that do not centre on narration, he works around and resists the limitations of cliché.