Alexander Cannistrà. A.lta C.uota

High altitude as a push to a limit that brings together modern technologies, such as electromagnetic systems, and primordial materials such as fire. High altitude as the definition of a conceptual and physical path of creative research.

The catalog presents the works exhibited in the personal exhibition of the same name - held at Officine dell'Immagine in Milan from 19 March to 19 April 2015 – and retraces Cannistrà's creative research over the last two years: four installations, flanked by 15 unpublished works created on different media, able to weave a direct dialogue between them, communicating thoughts that span time, silence, the ancestral, the futuristic and the symbolic.

Alessandro Cannistrà focuses his attention on the contrast between different elements that enter into direct symbiosis.
In his works on canvas, for example, the prolonged time of exposure to fire of a flame creates a thickness of soot, stopping just before the support catches fire. Thus a tension is created, understood as a material stress, in the form of cracks.
In this way, Cannistrà manages to reach the limit towards which his work tends, and who guides his artistic investigation in the design phase.
From a figurative point of view, what results are projections of imaginary or unrecognizable places, which take shape from shades of white, eroded by the force of fire.