A sostegno dell'Arte I, 1990

Bleached galvanized sheet, aluminium and steel
300 × 70 × 61 cm each

Installation at Franz Paludetto Gallery, Turin

The thesis of the instability of Art
(...) The idea of the series for Umberto Cavenago today appears to be a possibility of reading art in a horizontal sense, in a sense that does not necessarily privilege this or that moment, but finds its own dimension in the interaction of forms. Cavenago builds vehicles, objects that rest on precariously balanced wheels that support the thesis of an instability of art, or rather of the stereotypes on which a certain type of analysis is based, the exclusively formal one.(...)
Vittoria Coen, 1990
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A sostegno dell'Arte I, 1990

Bleached galvanized sheet, aluminium and steel
300 × 70 × 61 cm each

Installation at Franz Paludetto Gallery, Turin

The thesis of the instability of Art
(...) The idea of the series for Umberto Cavenago today appears to be a possibility of reading art in a horizontal sense, in a sense that does not necessarily privilege this or that moment, but finds its own dimension in the interaction of forms. Cavenago builds vehicles, objects that rest on precariously balanced wheels that support the thesis of an instability of art, or rather of the stereotypes on which a certain type of analysis is based, the exclusively formal one.(...)
Vittoria Coen, 1990
Photo © Studio Blu
Photo © Studio Blu
Photo © Studio Blu
Photo © Studio Blu
Photo © Studio Blu

Koslowski, Peter:
Der Mythos der Moderne: die dichterische Philosophie
Ernst Jüngers / Peter Koslowski. - München: Fink, 1991
ISBN 3-7705-2720-8
Umberto Cavenago, A sostegno dell’Arte, 1990 (cover picture)
ill. P. 99
Metropolis, International Art Exhibition Berlin 1991 (Cat.), C. Joachimides, N. Rosenthal (a cura di), Metropolis, International Art Exhibition. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin - DE, Rizzoli, New York, 1991
ill. a p.231
F. Sarpi, B. Vergnano, Gran Torino, in Living (Milano), n.01, 2013

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