CLET "L'Uomo Comune" Solo Show
A Solo Show curated by Luca Indemini_ between legality - challenging the concept and redefining it from time to time - and freedom - of action and expression. Clet Abraham did not leave the "road" and perhaps did not even choose the "road". It could be said that it was found by road and signposts, bulky presence in cities, "colonels of your movements through a language that standardizes us." Signs represent authority. Obligations and prohibitions. Clet, enthralled by the colors and the light of the vinyl of the signs, decided to replace them with the canvas to meet people and interact with their meaning, imperative and constrained. With his work he tries to make them less banal, infusing life in the black man - the "common man" - who lives enclosed in the limited and limiting space of the sign. Everything started in 2009, with the crucified Christ on the "T" of the unexpired street signal. Since then, Clet's interaction with road signs has moved mainly in three directions. Through the Passion, always revisited on the signal of the road no way out; Angels and Demons on the Obligations of Leadership; or the divine hand that emerges from the clouds pointing implacably to the children who run on the danger signal usually found near the schools, has developed a series of suggestions related to the theme of spirituality. Simplifying it from dogmatists and taking it to the street. Among the passers-by. And the motorists. Starting with the black man removing (or sawing) the signal of prohibition, then the artist's reflection on issues of freedom and legality develops. "Road signs are the imposition of institutions, the more they mark the territory." Other points of reflection on the subject are offered by the belt that loosens the loose ban, the ball to the foot added to the homework of the work in progress or the sinking ship, dragged from the anchor of the obligation of direction. There is then a third less definable area of work, only to the lighter and playful appearance. The common man driving the ban on access; the vitruvian man imprisoned in the ban on the prohibition, the arrow piercing the heart or the coin from a euro. And among these, also the works designed for the cities that host them. The common man who unveils the Shroud of the Shroud in Turin, the Eiffel Tower that is engaging in the turning ban in Paris, or the Union Jack emerging in London from the ban. In January 2011, the "common man" lives a fundamental evolution / revolution. It definitively frees the boundaries imposed by the signs, becomes sculpture (human dimension) and passes on the Bridge to the Thanks of Florence. For seven days, before being removed. In Turin Clet, to give three-dimensionality again to his character, he returns to the genesis of his work on the street, transforming the Crucifixion into the sculpture on the unmarked road sign. Opening hours: 11-20, Tuesday to Saturday Galleria SQUARE23, Via San Massimo 45, 10123, Turin Info: 334.9980390 HYPERLINK "mailto: info@square23.net" info@square23.net
