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Lorenzo Aceto, [‘atre], at Cesare Manzo Gallery in Pescara

Lorenzo Aceto won Premio Celeste 2008, painting section.
After the onset characterized by an investigation on the size of the ambiguous images, conducted with the tools of drawing and graphics, on this occasion, the artist presents the result of his most recent production, carried out entirely within the painting.
The primordial nature is the core theme around which revolves the entire exposure: the search for Aceto is in fact driven by the attempt to evoke something archaic. This led him to work on the image of the monolith- on the basis of the reflections of Mircea Eliade - as a holy event. A series of works has for its subject the technological primitives, the chipped stones. They are portrayed with almost scientific accuracy formal on a neutral background against which stand out the same way as metaphysical presence.
To prehistory is also inspired another series of paintings that arises from the film by Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire (1981). Set in the Stone Age (about 80,000 years ago), the film tells of the struggle between two tribes of hominids for possession of fire. The artist selects some frames to revisit them through painting. The reference to the prehistory also extends to the formal level, with the use of pigments of painting Paleolithic (all funds of the paintings are for example red ocher) and a pictorial process based on stratification.
The same title of the exhibition is the sound used by hominids in the film to indicate the fire.

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