Mixed media on PMMA, Bullets, Figures cm. 32 x 30,5 x 5,5 2014
“[The French philosopher Henri Bergson] writes: “…As we are both in and of it, we cannot help treating [society] as a living being. Any image…suggestive of the notion of a society disguising itself…will be laughable. Now such a notion is formed when we perceive anything inert or stereotyped, or simply readymade, on the surface of living society. There we have rigidity over again, clashing with the inner suppleness of life.” This passage expresses in some fair measure the quotient of vitality that courses through Lucia Dell’Orto’s work that deals lightly yet effectively..”
SOLO EXHIBITION AT ARTIFACT GALLERY – NY, MANHATTAN – 9-27 DECEMBER 2015. EXTRACT FROM THE CRITICAL REVIEW BY JOHN AUSTIN AN ART CRITICS BASED IN MANHATTAN.
