This page presents three recent works of the artist, chosen for their conceptual importance and for their being especially representative
of the eclectic attitude of Alessandro Minoggi. By clicking on the images you can make them larger, by clicking on the icons you can download the press bulletins referred to the works
in pdf format.
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The first work is called Horizontal Fight of Social Status, an oil painting, m 4x2, in which the artist represents a surreal "war"
scene between people of levelled social status but different superficiality. It's a work that underlines how "society nowadays rarely features real differences,
just shades that were born and/or contribute to feed a system that lashes out its frustration, lacking a real enemy, on something that can
at least look like it.
It isn't an exclusively political matter; my attention is driven to investigate a "new" concept of necessary enemy: a person or an ideal that is like us in its
substance, only differing at the most superficial layer, a difference created in the last twenty years with the help of TV and advertising models
".
The second work is Seven Places Where I Was Not. Twenty-nine I haven't seen. August 14th 2005, 4 pm. The aim of this work is to show the
frustration of renouncing or the impossibility to be there, the inability to be at the same time in different places, physical or ideal. On 14th
of August 2005 36 people have been asked by the artist to send, via email or mms, a picture of what they had in front of them at 4 pm.
Seven people have replied, their images in the centre;
the remaining black spots are the pictures the artist couldn't see
the chance given to the work that ended up working against it.
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The third work is A Gift for Jesus (as a baby), a peculiar ready-made: Alessandro Minoggi asked a priest Father Luca Bianchini, to pick a gift for
baby Jesus in a supermarket in Turin. The priest chose instinctively, not conditioned by any suggestion;
only after the choice he and the artist discussed the philosophical and theological reasons that were at the base of the aesthetics of the work.
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