Carlo Dell'Acqua - Anatomy

During the 1950s and 1960s, the so-called poetics of the object began to spread in European and American art. Harking back to the readymades of Dadaist memory, a new wave of groups or movements emerged that repurposed everyday objects as works of art. The departure from traditional Dada lay in the strong influence of Abstract Expressionism, which led to the reconfiguration of objects with new languages ​​and new stimuli.

Many of Carlo Dell'Acqua's works are the result of the artist's reflections on a new language based on the interpolation of objects and artistic practice. The object, a finished product belonging to tangible reality, enters the artwork, while the artwork, through the object, invades the viewer's real space. Beyond reviving the concept of the readymade, this work also draws on the collages of Cubism's synthetic phase: when the object is opened, it loses its completeness, unfolding on a wooden structure. The plastic object, a byproduct of consumer society, as the work's title suggests, is opened as if in an autopsy. It thus definitively completes its life cycle, simultaneously acquiring a new artistic identity.

Carlo Dell'Acqua was born in Bormio and developed his artistic career in Milan, where he attended the Brera Academy. His explorations involve a variety of techniques, from painting, photography, and video, to the manipulation and reworking of everyday objects and materials—often work tools—through installations and performances. The issues that have emerged since his first exhibitions concern the ongoing interplay of awareness and recognition between objects and subjects. His multifaceted techniques explore the various modes of stress, disarticulation, and fragmentation to which the identities of things and of those who view or use them are subjected. His artistic practice often focuses on physical action—at times violent and destructive—followed by a sort of second creation. The object, among others, is sometimes the artist himself, exhibited more as a strange machine or a simple container from which to squeeze out meaning.

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