project

Quand deux deviennent un

Ernesto Sartori

01.03.2013 - 20.04.2013, opening 01.03.2013



Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view
Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view
Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view
Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view
Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view
Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view
Quand deux deviennent un
Exhibition view


Let's jump back three years. For the group exhibition Moon Star Love, we had gathered eight young artists, whose practice seemed to presage the gallery's program. On this occasion, Ernesto Sartori had introduced us to the founding rules of the universe he meant to create: the slope he had fallen in love with inhabited his wall sculptures, abstract assembly and wood paintings, on which the activities of both protagonists, Gary and Duane, were to be nearly daily listed.

In the painting entitled Le baiser de la mort (2009), Gary and Duane (initially Left and Right), were locked into a deadly struggle. From then on, Ernesto Sartori's work revealed itself as laden with a double meaning: a formal vocabulary elaborated around vectorial calculations, modules of accurate symmetry and a narrative, which, borrowing from [...]