Luca Trevisani

The objet ambigu. A Work of Art as Process; Renate Wiehager offers the key pointer to Luca Trevisani’s working method by bringing Le Corbusier into play, who drew inspiration for his amorphous architecture from found objects on the borderline between nature and culture. Luca Trevisani’s associatively assembled world of forms, however, draws on a broader, multimedia, entirely contemporary fund: graphic and product design, processes of cultivation, scientific maps, literature, craft techniques, art history, substances and elements of nature, photographs and materials from the world of fashion. Luca Trevisani subjects this material to a continuous process of reading and re-reading, translation, deconstruction and construction, out of which artistic models and objects develop that can also be reflected back into their source material, perhaps to be interpreted anew in a different direction. Thus artificially produced blue crystals, owing their existence to particular chemical reactions, dominate one of the current groups of works. Dried plants, corn cobs for instance, partially coated with light-reflecting crystals in Yves Klein blue, become haptically and visually attractive, frighteningly beautiful, found and invented forms in the intermediate realm between nature and art. This, according to Nicolas Bourriaud, is “nourished as a fluidity of bodies and signs,” and is thus the result of our “cultural wandering” and “a mode of resistance to the generally prevailing formatting and a kind of formal guerrilla warfare.” The beautifully produced volume, designed to the artist’s specifications, conveys a comprehensive overview of the work. Luca Trevisani, born in Verona in 1979, lives today in Berlin and was most recently seen in large solo presentations at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence and at the MACRO in Rome.