Solo Show

Galerie der Berchtold Villa, SALZBURG
Arka Gallerija, VILNIUS
1996
 

Text by Stefano Cagol

Precise definition on Fattore artificiale and Disintegrazione

The work presented in these exhibitions is part of what has became the results of Stefano Cagol's latest artistic research efforts.
The artist is stubbornly, nearly obssessively experimenting many different solutions, both expressive and idealistic.
Nearly forgotten the material-experimentation period, S.C. now is more reflective, more concrete, interacting with all which, in his view, is carachteristic of our society.
Society intended  as a mutating-organism in a process of everlasting MUTATION (..so be the artist!), exasperatingly technologic, TV based, standardizing, promoting  and  advertising itself through the media, melancholic, thirsty for humanity    ...declining, cruelly cool und unjust towards the outsider.
The artist contemplates all this, feels part of it, enjoys  ...and hates it: the indomitable subterrian liveliness that "Man", so gray, so already   forgetful of  Nature, hides.
 

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Review  by Fiorenzo Degasperi

Stefano Cagol, Foreign situations

Stefano Cagol sparkling situation-creator, curious enquirer of  technics, always ready to travel to know, to learn and then transfer everything in his work. A work wich is difficult to separate from the very life of the artist. Infact the technics, the objects, the media are all used as instruments to express his thoughts, a state of mind, an idea.
An explosive conceptualism, you won't be able to frame one work that the next unbalances every security, forcing the observer to leave behind any stilistic scheme and let himself be dragged by the Maelstrom of fantasy.