Roberto Bosco: Beyond the Border

After Doha in Qatar, the Today Art Museum in Beijing, the Georgia Berlin Galerie in Berlin and the MACRO Museum in Rome, the art project “Beyond the borders” arrives in Venice presenting Roman painter Roberto Bosco’s forty years of activity. 

The exhibition focuses on contemporary man’s contradictions and homologation which erases differences that yesterday defined cultural borders.

«Each of my shows could be perceived as a rich chapter of a story whose subject is contemporary man and the society in which he lives. Never, as in our time, there has been a formidable endorsement process of the forms and contents that brought the “human landscape” to suffer up to collapse the different human realities that made up our world. Today, an eastern looks like a Western dress alike, run after the same goals, they love the same music and “grow” on the same parameters moral, economic and social. The realization of the so-called global village: all towards one goal…. And a single destination for all. The world breathes with difficulty, gets smaller, vomits outside his last resources under the bright lights of billions of light bulbs that enhance the “beauty” of all that is modern, fast, functional, productive, in tune with the global impulses hedonistic like tourism, consumption at any cost and the exposure of their biographical sketches and existential on various net-work that saturate our world.
In fact, all my shows are a complex image of the above considerations: the description of an “existential hell” where man struggles to find your own name and address of their home. The slender figures and almost flat that can remember those rupestrian (the beginning of the representation of the human figure) are placed on the canvas without a precise destination: are crowds, groups, individuals clotted in the greyness of their daily life that groping, clashing, meeting, losing by across the picture like colorless waves pouring out debris on the shore of a battered lost vitality.
Each of my pictorial work with an approach literary, sociological and philosophical: a complex vision of human reality that comes from a series of analyzes born from assiduous study of “banks” that have dotted the cultural profile of the intellectual speculation of the twentieth century.
The Human Condition by André Malraux, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Journey to the End of the Night by Luis Ferdinand Celine, The Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre, The Global Village by Marshall McLuhan, The Short Century by Eric Habermas, Apocalyptic and Integrated by Umberto Eco, the Complexity by Edgard Morin, Being and Time by Martin Heidegger are only a few works that anticipated perfectly the reality of contemporary man, its complexity and the difficulty to exist in a society that starts ineluctably toward a bleak existential revolution which is canceling all coordinates known until now».
Roberto Bosco

Organised by: Oltre Confine Associazione Culturale, IL10 Milano Studio & Project, ShowEventi, Valorizzazioni Culturali