Barbara Grossato’s artistic research at the turn of the century expresses the decade in which she creates her works in a refined language. She creates real pieces of art of contemporary design in installations, sculptures and canvases. Through abstractionism, he reproduces textures and colour contrasts that could be frames of viruses or organic tissue analysed under a microscope. Titles evocative of psychological dynamics leave the viewer alienated from the chemical process that the artefacts might represent. The use of recycled industrial materials such as cotton, steel, lead and galvanised metal project the thought towards futuristic technological installations. The latest creation entitled “Constellations” encapsulates all the artist’s poetics, imagining the universe that is perhaps not, instead of a cell. The suggestions it arouses seem dissonant, instead, they dialogue with each other from opposite points of view: a distant external one and an internal one. Quoting the anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahal: <<You can’t buy a ticket to paradise, at the most you can find it inside yourself>>. The emotional short-circuit in which one is led into is represented in the sculpture Mercury, a sphere of galvanised metal wire as tangled as the thoughts and emotions from which we cannot extricate ourselves. The counterpart to this work is the tondo ‘Memories’, made with mixed media and ceramics in which the empty and full volumes give order and harmony as in the awareness acquired through meditation.
The experience one has when visiting the collection on display is a contemplative moment about the rhythms of life and the need to refocus on one’s ‘self’.
Luca Ricci
Barbara Grossato 