Scaramouche Loves Aline is pleased to present “Natural Theater, evidence of archeology to come” a solo show by Vittorio Messina, opening Tuesday, October 8, 2019 and open to the public through Saturday, January 11, 2020.
The notion of archeology is a complex concept that invokes a different idea of time, of space, of history, but also a new idea of the future. Vittorio Messina’s “Natural Theater, evidence of archeology to come” becomes a way to investigate the disjointed occurrence of events, facts and documents that render history possible – a favored accumulation of “ruins” – and the motives for which those facts and those documents continue to exist. Messina’s work catapults us into a space that connects the multiplicity of temporal dimensions. At the start of his career in the mid-70’s, Messina focused his artistic pursuit on conceptualism and the avant-garde movements of those years, promptly orienting his own work in a multimedia direction. In addition to the works Findings, Broken bones, and Ruins, transcribed like catastrophic events, the series Evidence of Archeology to Come and Factorial Landscapes were born and would have a long continuum in the entirety of his work. Today the heart of Messina’s "Natural Theater" is a large, site-specific sound installation, created ad hoc for this exhibition, continuing the artist’s work with the use of auditory materials and opening a perspective for us on the relationship with technology and a reflection on our era. Like great literature that inspires us, Messina’s work is based on the dialectic rejection of every preconceived model.