Today fuoricatalogo galleries present Aldo Laurenti, a contemporary artist (Naples, 1932 – Pescara, 2016) who left us a series of works of painting and sculpture – with an informal, abstract representation of conceptual elements – imbued with social meaning, accentuated by the tormented historical period in which he was the protagonist.
The emphasis that the Neapolitan artist places on the concepts of “line” and “void” is particularly interesting. It represents lines that are not necessarily parallel which tend to never meet; he proposes a volumetric scan made up of full and empty spaces but it is the latter that interest him most. The parallel that can be seen with the society of those years (’60s – ’70s) steeped in economic boom, subsequent crisis, with the important student turbulence where there was a continuous search for an individuality that looked to the present is completely evident – in a context of little clarity for the future – also in light of international uncertainties (energy crisis and Vietnam war first and foremost). There are many connections with current events.
This continuous experimentation of our artist leads, in the new millennium, to a series of great paintings that analyze the fragility of built spaces and the uncertainties linked to precariousness and inequalities.
The concept of “emptiness” recurs throughout Aldo Laurenti’s artistic production, clearly implying that society will never be able to free itself from these voids: time will change shape, space, volume but they will always be an element of conditioning. His works function as critical social analysis and are still relevant today. Aldo Laurenti’s art is not anchored to the past but brightly projected towards the future.
