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Gallery Il Ponte presents the solo show by Carlo Guaita “Maree”. In this exhibition the artist exhibits some recent and unpublished works, all created from 2022 to 2025. The exhibition is structured through a series of inks on canvas from the “Maree” series, concrete and resin sculptures from the “Calchi” series, photographic elaborations from the “Sosia” series. The works create relationships between them in a sort of open articulation.

The basic elements of Carlo Guaita’s research are the relationships between the constituent materials of the work, therefore its body, and the temporal processes of the work, therefore the manner and time of the formative action.
To these must be added the constant references to the natural sciences, directly or indirectly, that is to say the constitution of the “world”, in generative practices and in encyclopedias of knowledge. Predispositions that concern, in Guaita, more the doing than the form and that always leave open the meeting or the combination between them, in a vision that is never definitively resolved, but always suspended and in movement, between absence and presence. […] A word, a conventional symbol, a scientific fact – very present in isolated form, in negative, in his works – are an aniconic icon of this “total landscape”, this median way, in suspension of judgement, between the map and the painting, between the geographical chart and the iconography. The landscape cannot but evoke that insatiable and paradoxical process which, from the Enciclopédie onwards, has made of the scrutiny of every detail, of the most detailed taxonomy, the vehicle for the dominion of nature and the knowledge of the universe. In the “total landscape” the crisis of modern thought is always present where it is no longer possible to separate the romantic sublime from the greatest scientific aspirations, rational thought from the mythological vision (cit., Denis Viva, Tutto il mondo è paesaggio, in cat. of the exhibition “Perduti nel paesaggio”, MART, Rovereto, 2014).