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March 1998 My work is not important, in that nothing is important because everything becomes ridiculous when you consider death. It is an ambiguous, clandestine, cultural opus ... spontaneous and innocent, conceived beyond good and evil. My work is fundamentally the simple log of a blind research project. Aurelio Fort's long-term, ongoing research project, expressed in the form of his artwork, investigates art as the history of human solitude. Living in solitude, on borders both geographical and artistic, Fort expresses not the emptiness of solitude, but rather its depth, and its tendency to concentrate the experiences which occur within it. The figures in Fort's paintings, when they appear, are highly stylized; they indicate human presence, but do not focus on the specificity of personality. More often than not, however, figures are implied through the application of collage elements onto the canvas. Sleeves from sewing patterns, insoles from shoes are applied onto highly textured surfaces that have been worked and reworked to create deep, lustrous backdrops for the play of objects and words that are superimposed. The paintings, with their scratchings and densely layered markings, serve as a contrast to Fort's vitrines - glass cases containing accumulations of objects - which are smooth, clean spaces conveying an air of empirical knowledge and artifact. Referring to the Surrealist boxes of more than half a century ago, Fort's encased objects are mystical and cryptic combinations of images, text, natural objects and scientific tools. Fort's work is both aesthetically beautiful and intellectually challenging. It is not "easy" work, but its rich surfaces, complex markings and allusions to literature and art history draw the viewer into the intimacy of the spaces that he creates. Full of texture and nuance, Fort's artistic vision is as thought provoking as it is compelling. |
Note biografiche - esposizioni
Aurelio Fort nasce a S. Lucia di Budoia, in Friuli, nel 1954.
Vive e lavora a Perugia, Trieste, Milano, Roma, Monaco di Baviera,
attualmente a Padola in provincia di Belluno.
1998
HAN Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Statgalerie, Desda, Germany
Galleria Dieda, Bassano, Italy
1997
Bianca Pilat Contemporary Art
Chicago, USA
1996
Deleon White Gallery
Toronto, Canada
1995
Vienna, Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Monaco Galleria, Mielich-Bender
1994
Padola, Mostra nell'edificio delle Scuole Elementari
Monaco, Mostra di gruppo, Galleria Mielich-Bender
1993
Monaco, Serie "Cuciture", Galleria Mielich-Bender
1991
Monaco, Galleria Mielich-Werber
1990
Casamazzogno, Installazioni e oggetti nell'ex Latteria Sociale
Monaco, Mostra di disegni, Galleria Titgemeyer
Monaco, Galleria Art & Concept
1989
Wasserburg, Mostra di Utopie, Galleria im Ganserhaus
Monaco, Mostra di gruppo, Galleria Art & Concept
Jülich, Mostra nella Biblioteca Centrale
del Centro Scientifico KFA
1988
Monaco, Galleria Roland Angst
Monaco, Galleria Titgemeyer
1987
Bari, Expo `87 Galleria Pancheri di Rovereto
Mostra itinerante in Olanda con altri 6 artisti
della Nymphenburger str.125:
Rotterdam, Galleria Kunst+
Apeldoorn, Galleria Bert Huisman
Wert, Geementemuseum
Padola, Mostra di Azione Documento di Presenza
1985
Stoccarda, Mostra di disegni all'Aleph
1983
Padola, Mostra di 3 strutture e di
un elettroencefalogramma
1980
Remanzacco, Udine, Circolo Culturale J.F. Kennedy
Gradisca, Gorizia, Galleria Rubens
Magnacavallo, Mantova, Mostra nella Sala Communale
1979
Trieste, Circolo Culturale Il Carso
Milano, Circolo Culturale La Saletta
1978
Città di Castello, Perugia, Galleria ART 2
Berna, Mostra nella Sede della Suisse Assurances