Ágalma. Pietro Fortuna at Rome’s Quadriennale

Ágalma in Greek is a gift, an ornament. And Corona is Pietro Fortuna’s present to Rome’s Quadriennale – a block of marble that holds a series of small balls, coins, and a bell: objects located exactly where they need to be, as if conforming to a predetermined order. All the art pieces and videos on view at Villa Carpegna tell about the research of the artist-philosopher on a reality that is discharged from the need to have a meaning. The artworks don’t look for a sense outside of themselves, they don’t want to be a representation of reality, but evidence of the present. “Presence is the real theater of my art,” says Fortuna.

Pietro Fortuna, Ágalma, Quadriennale di Roma, Villa Carpegna, Rome through July 31, 2013