Paolo Carosone

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Neo-Symbolist in content, neo-Classical in style and experimental in his techniques Carosone has shelved his past ;he faces and neutralizes the nightmare of the future by projecting and programming it. Carosone puts a frigid enthusiasm into his projection of prodigious beings, of which the absolute demiurge remains. Carosone's neo-Symbolism, although joined by an umbilical cord to memories of childhood, takes on science-fiction cadences. We see a cold, ascetic world, inhabited by a race of human robots who have subjugated nature and subverted it to their own ends. A world ruled by the will for power and glory (natural selection has produced heroes), which has neutralized the terror of ecological catastrophe thanks to the domination of science and technology.

Lorenza Trucchi