Carlo Guaita: Urania

Artopia presents the solo exhibition of the artist Carlo Guaita.
On display will be paintings and sculptures made between 2009 and 2015, including “Urania”, a collage from the series Prosopopee, which provides the show’s title.
The artist’s work tends to refer knowingly back to itself in a digressive manner, in sort of continuing encyclopedia of themes and figures of modernity; its self-referentiality is repeatedly both affirmed and contradicted by an incessant manipulation that is constructive and deconstructive at the same time.
Working at various levels – that of conceptual references, that of the relationships between artworks and the material used for formal elaborations – the artist effects a continuous stratification, almost an archiving and infinite cataloguing. His work, in all of its various aspects, thus presents itself as an uncertain encyclopedia, to be read at both the formal and conceptual levels, where the only form of a restitution of unity is its noticeable absence.