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- ISBN 9788898565160
- Format: Hardback
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Drago Arts & Communication
- Publication City/Country: IT
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The title of this book and exhibition, Concrete Archive, describes a resistance to the ephemeral character of the present and reinforces the idea of the durability of our past. The image of a cement archive highlights the importance of archiving, documenting and the recording humanity's actions, whilst exemplifying Stefano Canto's interest in an architectural approach to life. In this case, 'concrete' offers a figurative counterpoint to our current conception of time as a fluid, intangible dimension, in constant motion.
Behind Canto's formation as an architect a marked interest in the concept of mutation can be found. Canto is intrigued by the relationship between artifice and nature, particularly in reference to man's intervention on the landscape. In Canto's research, space is perceived as a grid, an outfit of geometric shapes that intertwine and stratify. His approach is analytic, decomposing the landscape in sets, levels and components. Space is therefore transformed into a three-dimensional network, composed of blocks, shapes and modules which, when put together, restore a vision of the total environment to the viewer.
Stefano Canto was born in Rome in 1974. He remained in this great city, graduating with a degree in Architecture in 2003. It is where he currently lives and works. His artistic productions are expressed through the poetics of place, passing through the social implications inherent in the relationship between man and architecture. "My artistic research," says Canto, "began with the observation of the surrounding environment, understood as a complex, polymorphic and polysemantic reality, made up of multiple elements, in continuous dialogue with each other, with their own identity and of their own symbolic, evocative and communicative values". His works have been exhibited in various galleries and institutions, including Viafarini Milan; Museum of the IFAN Biennial Dakar, Senegal; American Academy in Rome; Kochi Biennial Muziris, India; MAXXI, MACRO Rome; Matèria Gallery Rome; Milan Triennale Museum; RISO Museum Palermo, Corpo 6 Gallery Berlin; Carandente Spoleto Museum; Rocco Guglielmo Catanzaro Foundation; Carrara Marble Civic Museum. In 2005 he was winner of the Rome Prize and in 2009 of the Terna Prize 02.
