| Ugo Nespolo
Born in 1941, Mosso Santa Maria (Bi). He lives and works in Turin.
Jdylle, 2002
acrylic on cropped wood
100 x 70 cm
Autocitazione, 2002
acrylic on cropped wood
100 x 70 cm
D'Aprés & Voyeurisme
D'Après, revisiting, return to the scene of the crime, to redo in order to see again, to retry but also the idea of competing with the very idea of "quoting", an image-philological speech, the pleasure of entering in other people's houses and having a peep around. D'Après and voyeurisme are (in the end) the transference into other people's
thoughts. They are the true postmodern ideology with all that follows and came before.
As far as I'm concerned I enjoyed revisiting the Paul Klee with Bernese parents both musicians in a "self-quotation", made with an "educated memory", featuring glittering frills of a work that goes melancholy back to the late sixties.
I also enjoyed rereading one of those Francis Picabia "Monstres", his 1927 Idylle, from which Transavanguard, Chia in particular, was partly or entirely inspired by. Total painting, poetic naiveté, message and didactic excess, a total training ground for quotations and sighs.
U. N.
