Interlocutors of the Imperfect: Carlo Bach back to the art world

by Editorial team | Mar 31, 2011 in Art | Leave A Comment

“So, what is time? If no one asks me I know what it is, but if I had to explain it to the one who is asking, then I don’t know it.” This ancient aphorism of Saint Agostino has been the starting point of a deep reflection about the concept of “time” by Carlo Bach, the Artistic Director of illy, who has been participating in these days to the group exhibition “Interlocutori dell´Imperfetto” (“Interlocutors of the Imperfect”) at SPAC - Spazi Pubblici Arte Contemporanea (Public Spaces for Contemporary Art) – in Buttrio, Italy.

After a long absence of ten years from the art scene, Carlo Bach comes back getting possession of his art once again. “The aphorism of Saint Agostino has been coming along with me all the time in my life, because it perfectly expresses the difficulty of explaining the time with words. If you substitute the word “time” with the concept of “art” it works the same very well! Words are not my media. That´s why I chose “sand” with all its intrinsic characteristics as a medium to investigate a theme that I have been loving for all my life. Absolute and parallel syntheses of my work is the poetry “Vista con granello di sabbia” (“View with a grain of sand”) by Wislawa Szymborska”.

In the exhibition, Bach´s works belonging to the past perfectly intertwine with the works of the present time: old furniture crossed by a sand fall, reminding of time flowing, match with new photo images highlighting scraped surfaces and stripped off walls printed on pale supports.

For this exhibition ten artists living in Friuli Venezia Giulia were called to work over the provocative question “Ma dici a me?” (“You talkin` me?”) the famous line of Robert De Niro in the movie Taxi Driver. The works of Matteo Attruia, Carlo Bach, Ilaria Bortolussi, Claudia Cavallaro, Beppino de Cesco, Stefano Graziani, Serse Roma, Alessandro Ruzzier, Michele Spanghero, Cristina Treppo will be on until May the 1st at Villa di Toppo Florio, in Buttrio, near Udine, Italy.

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