Guido Casaretto, 'The Ghosts of Matter' at MOCAK MUSEUM

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The exhibition is the latest in a series of individual presentations by artists whose works are featured in the MOCAK Collection. Guido Casarettoís life and work incorporate many cultures. He was born in 1981 in Turkey, grew up in Greece and Italy, and now lives in Istanbul. His remote ancestors left Italy for Asia Minor during the Ottoman Empire. But they never assimilated ñ they became part of a community known as Levantine, made up of Christian immigrants from France, Italy and England. The artist studied at the Faculty of Painting and Conceptual Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologne and at the Faculty of Painting of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. He distances himself from the influence of any culture on his work, although one can occasionally find in it references to Italian art and tradition. #guidocasaretto is interested in natural matter ñ the sea, mountains, the universe, stone and wood. He also investigates processed matter, analysing the characteristics of furniture and ceilings. The corollary of such pursuit is his interest in the ëhuman matterí. In respect of primary materials he uses traditional techniques, incorporating the experience of painters, sculptures and craftsmen. With manmade objects, his methods are more complex ñ for example, he pulverises wardrobes, and fashions the resultant wooden chips and finely crumbled glass, mixed with resin, into useless replicas of the original objects. The strangest is the technique that the artist has employed in relation to human beings. On the internet he has found universal models of the human figures, produced for use in computer animations. On the basis of a few hundred of shots of specific persons ñ or their ëmatterí ñ a total image was produced. #guidocasaretto has used this synthesis in his sculptures. The artistís interests are idiosyncratic; his art appears visionary. Casaretto analyses different forms of the matter of the Universe, and subsequently ñ using a variety of media ñ produces their replicas. The implication is that our future is a perfect simulacrum. We are showing 17 works from the years 2014ñ2019. Seven of them were created especially for the exhibition in Krakow.

Guido Casaretto, Do Unpleasant #people Share Similar Features? IV, 2019, graphite, charcoal / resin, 193 ◊ 230 ◊ 150 cm, courtesy Adamovskiy Foundation, photo: K. Kaygusuz #guidocasaretto, Do Unpleasant #people Share Similar Features? IV, 2019, graphite, charcoal / resin, 193 ◊ 230 ◊ 150 cm, courtesy Adamovskiy Foundation, photo: K. Kaygusuz #guidocasaretto, Crossing Carnevale, 2019, video, c. 20 min, courtesy Zilberman Gallery

Guido Casaretto

'The Ghosts of Matter'

Curator: Agnieszka Sachar

25 October 2019 - 22 March 2020

Venue: building A, level 0

MOCAK MUSEUM

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