Francesco Patriarca: Aggregates

11 May - 15 July 2009
curated by Maria Alicata

The new work of Francesco Patriarca is about the relationship between man and landscape. Aggregates is a metaphor for the process of urban expansion and technological progress that man perpetrates at the expenses of natural resources.

The exhibition follows an imaginary line that runs through the spaces of the Foundation and that becomes visual and real in the works exposed. Organic and mechanical elements coexist alluding to the process of urban and industrial expansion reached through the exploitation and fragmentation of the territory. Humans traces on the environment are represented through the subtraction of descriptive references. Several interventions show the precarious relationship between man and environment, between rational and natural.

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turtle-city--acrylic-on-canvas-100-x-120cm

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turtle city - acrylic on canvas 100x120cm