Paolo Conti. nonsoloferro

«Perhaps the choice of materials that Paolo Conti uses, carrying out an operation on them that is only apparently contradictory, it is the preliminary act of the journey of an authentic curious person. Scraps are the primary sources of a fascinating combinatorial game that is gradually enriched with variations.
Unsuspected worlds open up, from the measures, from the proportions, from the uncovered geometries by maneuvering on the pieces that contain within themselves the many possibilities of shapes, and they would say they are attracted to each other by an implicit persuasive force that only needs a demiurgic intervention, a non-arbitrary act that finds the meaning of their possible existence in the internal mechanisms of the fragments. This existence will have to be revealed. " Taken from the text Paolo Conti by Vittoria Coen.

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition “Paolo Conti not only iron. Works 1968-2009 " at the MAGI Museum 900 (October / November 2009).