Carmelo Zotti - Sphinx and Lighthouse

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s, encompassing all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

The work is highly representative of the aesthetic pursued by artist Carmelo Zotti, which focuses on the creation of a surreal dimension populated by fantastical creatures. In this case, the subject is developed following the process of accumulation typical of Metaphysical Art, which involves the creation of an entity through the union of several unrelated objects. Formally, Zotti differs from both Surrealism and Metaphysical Art for his more synthetic style, which seeks a more essential expressiveness.

Carmelo Zotti is an artist originally from Trieste, where he was born in 1933. His artistic career began in Venice, where he won the Bevilacqua La Masa Prize in 1954. His first exhibition at the Biennale came in 1956. From then on, Zotti would be the subject of numerous exhibitions, not only in Italy but also abroad. Among these are the retrospective at Ca' Pesaro in Venice in 1995 and the retrospective at the Permanente in Milan.

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