Galleria Doris Ghetta is delighted to present a selection of works by Viola Bittl, Leonardo Silaghi and Hugo Vallazza at Minimal, in collaboration with Boccanera Gallery.

Hugo Vallazza (Ortisei, Italy 1955– 1997) developed his style between the 1970s and 1990s, years of economic growth and extreme consumerism. He responded to a vision of art considered as a market commodity, and consumed as such by the public, by forcefully reasserting the role of art as a form of intellectual existence and resistance, a dimension that is out of the spotlight and removed from all excess. In the face of a modernity that generates emptiness and disorientation, Vallazza’s monochromes declare their refusal to accept the rules of the game and claim their right to be low-key and unrefined as opposed to over-the-top and slick. They act as opaque systems, not pondered and studied but instinctive and intuitive.

In his most recent work, the Romanian artist Leonardo Silaghi (Satu-Mare, Romania, 1987) focuses on the world of ideas behind concrete reality. His subjects are first and foremost mental spaces, surfaces behind which meanings, ideas and thoughts are layered. Through a performative painting, Silaghi conceives artistic practice as a learning process in which the artist learns and becomes aware through and thanks to the act of painting.

The German artist Viola Bittl (Eichstätt, Germany, 1980) works on the possibilities offered by abstract painting by investigating the relationships between figure and ground in the pictorial space. Particularly interested in the ideas and reductive formal language of modern art as well as in the sensualisation of simple forms through painting, Bittl pursues an artistic research which leads her work to figures that change according to the surfaces and surfaces that both reveal and conceal at the same time. The result is figure-ground paintings in which figures, partially absent, nevertheless remain omnipresent.

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