Artist: Davide Dicorato
Exhibition title: Il Peso Delle Nuvole
Curated by: Ilaria Bignotti, Melania Massaro, Camilla Remondina
Venue: Museo di Scienze Naturali, Brescia, Italy
Date: May 19 – August 25, 2023
Photography: all images are copyrighted. Courtesy of the artist and The Address
The restlessness, the heaviness and the growing sense of guilt linked to the relationship between man and nature lie within each of us. In recent years, to this sense of unease it has been given the name of eco-anxiety.
The artist relates to this “culture of disappointment” with an empirical approach, placing himself in the role of mediator between man and nature through associations, the search for balances and harmonies.
The aim is, as in the practice of shamanism born over 30,000 years ago, to bring the viewer into deep contact with Nature and the animal beings.
Through his artistic practice, Dicorato has had the possibility to visit places where ruins are the protagonists. Looking for artifacts in the most disparate corners, he follows the traces of a time that flows inexorably and that brings with it an alternative vision. A return to nature that has now faded and forces us to rethink our relationships with the environment around us, in a new increasingly complex and structured way, made up of layers that continually overlap.
In a certain way, the human being is linked to something else: to his fellow specimens, but also to animals, to the earth, to the sea and to the sky; therefore to all that is matter.
This is what transpires in the artist’s pragmatic, symbolic and shamanic-inspired vision.
The result of this research translates into an exhibition, for which the artist has created the entire display, using large ventilation pipes that act as sculptural supports and as indicators of the path to follow. Davide Dicorato’s display is placed in close dialogue with some animal finds, carefully selected together with the zoologist Melania Massaro of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Brescia, which are part of the permanent collection of the museum.
Davide Dicorato (b.1991, Italy) lives and works in Milan.
Moving in and out of the city, the artist developed a particular sensitivity for issues such as the mannature and individual-society relationship, contemporary archeology, natural architecture, the harmony and disharmony of time in relation to memory, identity and obsolescence.
His work is characterized by sculptural interventions, assembly processes and site-specific installations starting from the reworking and manipulation of natural elements and artefacts to which different meanings are attributed. The work of the artist is stratified through cognitive attunements and experimental processes that create new relationships and interesting points of view.
Among selected exhibitions:
Who Killed Bambi?, Nuovo Spazio di Casso al Vajont, Casso (2022), Break-In Temporal Displacement, The Address Gallery, Brescia (2022); From Discipline To Holoboint, Parco Nord, Milano (2021), BAITBALL, Like litte disaster, Polignano a Mare (2020); Don’t look back in anger, Sattelkammer, Berna (2019); Space invader, La Rada, Locarno (2018); Forget about it, Current Project, Milano (2017), The Great Learning, La Triennale, Milano (2017); Teatrum Botanicum, PAV Parco d’Arte Vivente, Torino (2016). Residencies: VIR Viafarini-in-residence in 2018 and Fuocoapaesaggio, il Forte di Monte Ricco, Pieve di Cadore, for Dolomiti Contemporanee in 2017.
