Sospiri, 1999

Wall object made of Carrara marble 3-piece, unique piece

Dimensions: 54 x 42 x 3 cm

The Italian-Argentinean artist Antonio Trotta has been overcoming fixed categories and classifications with his work for over 50 years. His modus operandi includes performance, video, language, photography, installations and sculptures. In the series "Sospiri", created between 1999 and 2016, marble becomes "leaves in the wind". Trotta transforms the weight of the material into a wondrous lightness. Each work of the Sospiri stands for movement and light. At the same time, "light" does not express reality, but rather a feeling between the tangible and the illusion, which counteracts the spatial representation of the work.

Antonio Trotta was born in Paestum in 1937. He moved to Argentina in the mid-1950s, and after exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Institute Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, he was invited to design the Argentine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1968. Important solo exhibitions: Galleria Christian Stein, Turin (1971, 1977), Galleria Cardi, Milan (1990). Group exhibitions, among others: Venice Biennale (1976, 1978, 1990), Institute for Contemporary Art, London (1974), National Museum, Osaka (1979). Since 2009 member of the National Academy of San Luca, an artists' association that has existed since 1577.