Antonio Riello

“Artists have the duty (and the privilege) to know how to sense and document the challenges and contradictions of their time. Sometimes these are dramatic condemnations, sacrosanct public reflections, volatile fantasies, or complex reconstructions. Sometimes these are paradoxical visions: this is my case.”

Rischio insostenibile (amo i ciclisti) (Unsustainable Risk (I love bikers)) is an impossible and insidious (but also terribly seductive) bicycle. It alludes to the complicated issues that sustainability arouses at different latitudes and longitudes. Tarda modernità (Late Modernity) is a humble and walkable “encyclopedic synthesis” of late modernity, with its many obsessions, few virtues and supposed glories. A dynamic pattern of icons forms the texture of this large carpet that works like a sort of Bayeux Tapestry (in that it recounts, in part, an epic).

ANTONIO RIELLO (1958, Marostica, Italy) works with painting, sculpture, design, photography, installation and video games. He believes that contemporary art is a form of continuous anthropological research and that irony itself – a real “logical short circuit” – can be a powerful tool for investigation.