calogero barba

Biography

Matters on the restless surface
Massimo Bignardi

Looking at the works carried out by Calogero Barba in these last years of the Nineties, we have the clear sensation of how the Sicilian artist has put his work again on the registers of surface. The passage point, if so it can be defined, is represented by two installations, both planned in 1997, entitled Sifting the press and Sacellum which draw attention to the implied desire to evoke images. In fact they are as a zipper and, in the meanwhile, they outline a definite border between the interest towards the object-sculpture which till that date had stirred up Barba’s imaginary - evidence of a vitality taken from mythologic calls with experiences driven at questioning the space through the restless matter of objects drawn from inventories of the modern city - and the idea of resetting that perspective to come back from a conception we can say “representative” of such vitality.