Aldo Runfola

Biografia perfetta (Perfect biography) is a double self-portrait, representing the artist and his story, with three main characteristics: the artist turns his back to the viewer, while the story, which itself is impossible to portray visually, is rendered as a verbal summary. Furthermore, the biography is perfect, both as a novel and as a “life”. Perfect Biography is formed of 16 panels – for space reasons, the exhibition features a sequence of 8.

Aldo Runfola (1950, Palermo) lived for a long time between London, Milan, New York and Berlin, where he currently lives and works. An emblematic, silent and almost clandestine presence on the contemporary art scene, he alternates between various disciplines including video, always focusing on narration and reflection. Radical and singular, he is an iconoclast who never stops meditating on his artistic experiences. He is constantly pursuing the desire to save both art and the world. To achieve this enormous goal, Runfola multiplies the tension without ceasing to analyse the visual language until he produces a theory on the sense of reality.