Paolo Gonzato (Busto Arsizio, 1975) lives and works in Milan. Trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, his artistic path moves between contemporary and functional art: paintings, sculptures, collages, installations and performances combine the study of design with the poetics of art. His works are present in public and private collections and have been exhibited in national and international, personal and collective exhibitions, including Officine Saffi and Camp Design Gallery, Milan; Cabana Mad, Lisbon; International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza; Venice Biennale; Tate Modern, London.
Paolo Gonzato defines his research as a mash-up of elements, modalities, possibilities in which nothing is absolute – from the Latin ab-solutus, free from creativity or constraints – and it can be evaded in a thousand possible ways. His works are born from the fertile hybridization between art, architecture, design and fashion: going to vivisect and analyze every possible reference of the vast aesthetic-cultural archipelago that informs his practice would be a taxonomic effort of little use to grasp his anti-academic and nomadic attitude.
PLUS is a modular sculpture by Paolo Gonzato that does not provide a definitive solution. It‘s an open structure whose parts can be independent. Each cube, formed by six faces, is added (plus) to the others. Materials and textures are juxtaposed in random accumulations.
