Hugo Vallazza
Hugo Vallazza (Ortisei, Italy 1955– 1997), an artist who died prematurely, 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 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. Vallazza’s work testifies to a detached vision of reality that refuses both to yield to the idyllic promise of a rejoining of society with nature and to feel sorry for itself for the hiatus created between humans and the space they live in: on the contrary, it suggests new points of view that seek to better comprehend who we are and how we inhabit that space.
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