La fureur de l'atome

There is nothing purely "Surrealist? or "literary" about Ernesto Sartori's work. Its very incongruity has a theoretical seriousness. Brandishing tubes of gouache, watered-down oil paint, and fluorescent water-colour pens, he works mainly on wooden surfaces, making installations from modular elements. With a genuine concern for rigour, which hallmarks his drawings and paintings alike, and as one who subscribes to a non-conformist logic, his world can be compared with the activities of Kurt Schwitters, Paul Thek, and Robert Smithson, like a tribute paid to nature's possible.

You see bits of landscape filled with human beings, animals and monsters.

In this system of dovetailed slopes [...]

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