Simone Gori

The sky and clouds, recurring iconographic elements in Simone Gori's art, are the absolute protagonists of the work on display. Conceived by the artist as an “atmospheric relic”, Frammento d'infinito (Fragment of Infinity) captures a portion of the sky in the form of a “sculptural photograph”. The image printed on a glass structure with jagged edges takes on weight, concreteness and thickness, but remains only a fragment. The idea of being able to grasp and retain infinity is thus both suggested and denied. As Gori suggests, 'the work evokes the possibility of retaining the immaterial, but also a silent catastrophe, a fracture of continuity. It stems from the desire to crystallise the exact moment when something breaks, but the light remains." Light and transparency, rather than the faithful reproduction of the subject, are in fact the points on which the artist has focused, to give the image “atmospheric” characteristics. 'Making the fragility of the invisible visible is also a subtle political gesture,“ he comments. 'In an age when the atmosphere is constantly monitored, the idea of owning a piece of sky takes on the value of a poetic act of resistance”. The work escapes a unidirectional view: its direction is not defined and it can be set up in a variety of positions.

Stefano Castelli