"Signs of Art" 2007

A to Z evolution in primary forms

Andrea Zanotti (1973) sculptor graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and continues to experiment with relationships, tensions and synergies between the work, the environment, light and space in which they materialize its forms evolving expanding the ability of the plastic material chosen and each associated with one another for their originality and specificity physics.
Zanotti is a minimalist-Chance, drawn from primary research and the reduction in all primary structures, with the obsession to highlight the self-volumes and materials
His work "Domino-Domino" (2007) made for the course Tam (Artistic Treatment of metals) to Pietrarubbia (PU), marks an important step of his artistic career, because at the heart of his way to work in space, not so much geometric modularity, typical of the American minimalist school, but the tension and energy constructivist structures by geometric volumes by direct visual impact, the Gestalt is perceived as a whole unit.
Its solid figures, cubes or blocks, which are primary structures concretizzano imagine and material with metallic modular elements positioned so as to measure and change the perception of space.
His installation of the soil has a specific connection with the space which is putting the focus of the viewer: the perceptual organization of the structure of metal and a source of light, preferably natural, able to animate the work.
A Zanotti contextualisation environmental concerns, so that the colors of the metals blend with the materials themselves and contribute to highlighting the pure form, because its living sculpture when it is perceived.
Morris writes, "What worries us now is the total variable ... relations between the object, light, space and the human body .. The situation has become more complex and open", these considerations apply to the search for Zanotti that his work differs from that of Judd, and thus closer to the locations of Morris, author of works in progress, open, never static, different from other minimalist sculptors Americans.
"Domino-Domino" diptych of primary structures of over 40 kg of iron, brass and copper, on the one hand evokes an exciting game, played in great and the 'other surprises, and involves the senses of the spectator for its expansion in space, resulting in an original poetic three-dimensional space, never impersonal or cold, from "touch" with eyes and hands rather than to tell.

Jacqueline Ceresoli.