Paolo Canevari’s work is among the most relevant contemporary syntheses of the linguistic expressions elaborated since the Sixties, and its forms know no boundary, including videos, installations and performance.
Canevari’s work, however, avoids monumentality, and steers clear of all rhetoric connected to concepts such as “tradition” and “classic”. The primary, simple materials constituting his work relate to the notion of representation, and act as “keys” to which every possible reading is viable. They nonetheless bear witness to the continuous metamorphoses of matter, whose instability goes hand in hand with openness to interpretation.
The series “Heroes” is a work from the early ’90, acrylic paint on comic book pages from Marvel Comics superheroes.
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