Simone Carraro – Paesaggi Invisibili

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We are pleased to invite you at the opening of Paesaggi Invisibili, new solo exhibition of venetian artist Simone Carraro. Based on the artist's intricate ongoing research into overlooked natural landscapes, topographies and systems, this latest body of work investigates the osmosis that occurs between abandoned industrial and man-made elements left to nature and their surrounding environments.

Carraro approaches nature as an uncovering of a series of phenomenal processes, resulting in the creation of unique microscapes. These are manifested by his vision through microscopic lenses, through which he analyzes, describes, films, draws and stylises. Thus there emerges a strong narrative within and between the works, themselves an ensemble of analogue and digitally produced pieces. One might describe the composition of his imagery as an ‘archive of invisible landscapes’. This detailed research constitutes the cornerstone of Carraro’s artistic process: a biological abandonment. Thus he connects with the genesis of the word ‘abandon’ - from medieval French “mettre à bandon”, namely “leave to the power of”.

The French 18th-Century chemist Antoine Lavoiser famously said “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.” to describe a series of experiments within his laboratory. Carraro’s new works in Paesaggi Invisibili might strike the viewer as a pictorial rendition of a similarly scientific, as well as semiotic, exploration into continuously changing landscapes. Here, waste is sacralized by imperceptible organisms, whose frenetic energy evokes a feeling of inexorable transience.