Emersioni Sensoriali: Raffaele Minotto

Emersioni sensoriali is the title of Raffaele Minotto's solo exhibition at the new headquarters of the SimonBart Gallery in Piazza Cavour 6 in Bologna.

 

The artist from Padova exhibits his latest artworks involving the public in a visual and intellectual journey, a journey back into the meanders of an experience made up mostly of interiors, places in which the artist has fixed memories and sensations. Minotto's material paintings transport the viewer to another dimension, where everyone can find their time and their safe place, suspended spaces in which to rethink themselves.

 

In Minotto's artworks, matter gives body to memory and the concept of stratification refers to the physical process of sedimentation, where the pictorial elements are deposited on top of each other, sometimes integrating with each other, other times juxtaposing. This concrete meaning of the term refers to a conceptual conjugation of the artistic gesture, more similar to the superposition of the processes of the mind, an internal place where the thoughts that define the final work are deposited and contaminated.

 

Raffaele Minotto's is certainly an immersive art form because it leads the viewer on a mental and sensorial journey; it is an immersed art, imbued with his experience and his profound knowledge of the history of art and its languages, but above all it is emerged art, which has emerged on the surface of a sea saturated with figures and icons, often fetishes of our contemporaneity.

 

The exhibition, composed of around thirty works, including canvases, tables, drawings and engravings, recounts the last decade of the author's artistic career. The exhibition describes the complexity of a multifaceted artist, who finds in painting the medium suitable for his message but who at the same time ranges between different artistic techniques that he uses with his usual refinement and expressiveness. The works on display are accompanied by sketches, preparatory drawings, archive images, analogue photographs, archive materials which help the visitor to enter the artist's creative process, to be able to fully appreciate a cultured and accurate work.