Another Place

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PAOLO CAVINATO

Another Place

 From large installations to small objects, sculptures to compositions of fluorocarbon threads, Paolo Cavinato’s main challenge remains his only objective: to look elsewhere, to imagine the invisible. And the exhibition Another Place is no exception. On show at The Flat - Massimo Carasi gallery in Milan from September 30th to November 20th 2021, Another Place was conceived in relation to Limen – an exhibition that will run concurrently at Palazzo Te, in Mantua –, and focuses on the artist's most recent works.

The exhibition plan brings together a nucleus of works that exemplifies the poetic of Paolo Cavinato, centered around the concept of thresholds and boundaries, both fundamental elements of an artistic search that constantly examines the idea of otherness. These aspects figure in the works on both an aesthetic level – with references to rooms, houses, empty places – as well as in the inferred states they embody – stasis, reflection, desire. To these, new and important innovations in the artist's expressive repertoire are added: from the use of color in relation to time as the fourth dimension, to the use of the sound as a complementary component to the idea of ​​movement.

If the relationships between finite and infinite, chaos and order have always been constants of his work, on this occasion Paolo Cavinato plunges his analysis into the middle ground between reality and representation. To do this, he creates an engaging environment, a multisensory space where echoes of dimensions far and near converge to tell of a world whose nature is yet to be grasped.

Bursts of incandescent color unleash an energy that takes visitors back to a distant era, deluding them into believing that they are where the universe began. In that space, where everything was pure movement, it is also possible to perceive time in its essence: unstable, relative, changeable. Here, the invitation is to connect to the works, give in to their singular, vital drive and allow oneself to be carried away.

Symbolic of this situational tension is Breath (2021), which sets the scene for a gradual transition towards a faraway dimension. The three sculptures that compose the work, albeit static, reveal this sense of movement in their details: the shading tones of blue that color them, the shapes that differentiate them, the light that animates them from within, the sounds that give them breath. The musical component, created by composer Stefano Trevisi, extends throughout the exhibition, completing its suggestive configuration with subtle and delicate sounds.

Another Place is thus configured as both a synthesis of the last ten years of Paolo Cavinato's artistic research, and a pivotal point in its evolutionary trajectory.

PAOLO CAVINATO. Born in 1975,  lives and works in Mantua, Italy.

After graduating at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and having completed a course in Cinematography in Milan, since 2001 he has exhibited in various solo exhibitions (Milan, London, Berlin, New York, Santa Fe), and since 1997 in many group exhibitions in  Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, China and in the US. In 2005 he was invited to partecipate at the Istanbul Biennial . Winner of the 3rd Prize of the 2008 Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan. Awarded by the Royal British Society of Sculptors of London, which hels  the artist’s solo exhibition in 2011. In 2014 winner of a six months  at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel In 2017 a large solo exhibition by the artist was held in the rooms of the Museum of Palazzo Ducale of Mantua Italy. He was recently selected for the Art Residency Program of the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels. In 2021 Cavinato participates to a new project the for edition of  Sonographies with the installation Limen at Palazzo Te in Mantua.

Cavinato’s artworks were  acquired and exhibited in numerous public and private spaces, including: Artphilein Foundation in Liechtenstein, Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen, Marino Golinelli Collection in Bologna, Barzilai-Hollander's Collection in Brussels, Galleria Civica di Modena, Museo San Fedele, Milan, Farnesina Collection in Rome, Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, Consulate General of Italy in New York, MAXXI National Museum of Arts in Rome