Luca Trevisani

The objet ambigu. A work of art as a process

Renate Wiehager provides the central reference for Luca Trevisani's working method by bringing Le Corbusier into play, who drew inspiration for his amorphous architecture from found objects on the border between nature and culture. However, Luca Trevisani's associatively compiled world of forms is fed by a broader, multimedia, completely contemporary pool: graphic and product design, cultivation processes, scientific map material, literature, artisanal techniques, art history, fabrics and elements from nature, photos and materials from the fashion world. Luca Trevisani subjects this material to a continuous process of reading and re-reading, translation, deconstruction and construction, from which artistic models and objects develop, which can also be reflected back into their source material, perhaps to be reinterpreted in a different direction. Artificially produced blue crystals, which are the result of certain chemical reactions, dominate one of the current groups of works. Dried plants, such as corncobs, partially covered in light-reflecting crystals in Yves Klein blue, become haptically and visually attractive, frighteningly beautiful, invented and invented forms in the intermediate realm between nature and art. According to Nicolas Bourriaud, this is nourished as a "fluidity of bodies and signs", the result of our "cultural wandering" and "a mode of resistance against the generally widespread formatting and a kind of formal guerrilla". The beautifully appointed volume, designed according to the artist's specifications, provides a comprehensive overview of his work. Luca Trevisani, born in Verona in 1979, now lives in Berlin and recently had major solo exhibitions at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence and the MACRO in Rome.