New York Opening Photography Show Salvatore Corso Aldo Bertolini

Salvatore Corso and the idea of the Double


When I accepted to introduce the Exhibition as proposed to me by Salvatore Corso and the Gallery directed by Aldo Bertolini, the first thing that occurred to me was the theme of the Double, examined in such depth and detail by the psychologist/philosopher James Hillman.
In fact the exhibition appears as a physical self (given by the portrait) and a projection of the self (given by the work of art). As if the themes could invert themselves giving to the work of art a 'physical' valence and to the portrait made by Salvatore an emanation of the self.
What is indisputably certain is that the Artist (or actually, the two Artists, The Photographer and the Painter), in his prime expression, does not try but to proclaim his reality: a reality at times whispered, at times shouted, at times imposed, at times sinuously declared in the proposition of an other truth that opens for us a parallel understanding of what is real.
The relationship with matter, the creation of forms that are abstract or that get their idea from the figure, do not appear as a self-standing structure of what is real in its own visual role but rather as a translation of the inner reality. Where the artist, now and yesterday, divided more than ever between acting and being acted upon, carries out a constant mediation and interaction with the outside world, with the reciprocal adaptation of the individual and the environment, and interchange of sensations and reflections.

It is this circularity that fascinates and captures, leaving the solution exactly to the identifying path between the two images, thus conquering an imaginary space and a will to attempt a voyage with no definite destinations and no preset limits, with eyes open above all to the metamorphosis and the exploration of the self.

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