The Consequences

 

Mariateresa Sartori THE CONSEQUENCES

PIN*UP SERIES daily newspaper, detachable, displayable, recyclable no. 3, April 2025, Rome

Production Deposito Solvent, Edizioni Cambiaunavirgola, printing and layout Lalegatoria

project and text by Pasquale Polidori

 

28 black and white images digitally printed on 14 sheets measuring 31.4 x 46.4 cm, Fedrigoni Arena rough Ivory 120 gsm on both sides. 50 copies. The first edition includes a monotype by the artist. Text by Pasquale Polidori. Concept and curation by Pasquale Polidori in collaboration with Claudia Damiani and Cambiaunavirgola Edizioni for the graphics. Printed by La Legatoria, Rome.

 

link to the video of the newspaper being leafed through: Le Conseguenze

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The drawers

video, loop, colors, mute, 2013

video installation  Galleria Michela Rizzo, photos by  Francesco Allegretto

video installation The drawers

to see the video click on :    I disegnatori

 

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1 minute and 15 seconds of drawers’ gaze

 

i minute and 15 seconds of the drawers' gaze

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wall Installation, 600 cm x 155 cm, 135 Drawings, 21 x 29,7 cm each, Felt tip pen on transparent paper

Galleria  Michela Rizzo, Venezia 2013, Photography by Francesco Allegretto

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TIME

The Progressive Fall of the Centuries

 

The Progressive Fall of the Centuries, 2024, 197 x 197 cm, paper cuttings from magazines and books from the 19th and 20th centuries

foto Francesco Piva 

This work is the first of a triptych dedicated to time and memory inspired by three different poems. To some extent they are graphics of poems

The images and texts are taken from magazines and books of the 20th and 21st centuries. The squares of paper line up towards the centre of the circle, where everything gradually becomes more and more illegible due to the dark colour and the thinning of the squares. Phrases that could be read in full, faces, animals, number tables, trees, buildings gradually become incomprehensible.

Source of inspiration a poem by Testori:

La calma, dolcissima caduta dei cementi;

la caduta solenne delle case,

dei petali di fuoco che i raggi rimandano dai vetri;

l’antica, fatale caduta delle piazze sulle strade,

delle strade sulle piazze (…)

l’antica caduta dei platani

e dei pioppi (…)

la dolce, calma progressiva caduta

dei secoli nei secoli e millenni

il rumore vano che lascia dietro di sé

il mondo

ed il silenzio (…)

 

Eclipse. There are not leaves enough to cover the face


 

2024, 197 x 197 cm, paper cuttings from magazines and books from the 19th and 20th centuries

The cut-out fragments of vegetation and leaves are not enough to cover the cutouts of faces that pop up here and there. The eclipse is partial.

This work is inspired by a poem of Wallace Stevens

There are not leaves enough to cover the face

It wears. This is the way the orator spoke:

“The mass is nothing. The number of man in a mass
 Of men is nothing. The mass is no greater than
The singular man of the mass. Masses produce
 Each one its paradigm.” There are not leaves
 Enough to hide away the face of the man

Of this dead mass and that. The wind might fill
With faces as with leaves, be gusty with mouths,
 And with mouths crying and crying day by day.
 Could all these be ourselves, sounding ourselves,
 Our faces circling round a central face
And then nowhere again, away and away?

Yet one face keeps returning (never the one),

The face of the man of the mass, never the face
 That hermit on reef sable would have seen,
Never the naked politician taught

By the wise. There are not leaves enough to crown,
 To cover, to crown, to cover—let it go—

The actor that will at last declaim our end.

 

The Plain Sense of Things

 

2024, 197 x 197 cm, paper cuttings from magazines and books from the 19th and 20th centuries

The clippings of lush vegetation and fragments of decaying houses sloping towards the centre become clearer revealing leafless trees: the bare branches show the plain sense of things

The Plain Sense of Things

After the leaves have fallen, we return

To a plain sense of things. It is as if

We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
It is difficult even to choose the adjective

For this blank cold, this sadness without cause.
The great structure has become a minor house.
No turban walks across the lessened floors.
The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.

The chimney is fifty years old and slants to one side. A fantastic effort has failed, a repetition

In a repetitiousness of men and flies.
Yet the absence of the imagination had

Itself to be imagined. The great pond,

The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves, Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence
Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see,

The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this Has to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge, Required, as a necessity requires.

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installation view: Mariateresa Sartori David Rickard. Aether/Etere. La presenza dell’assente, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia, a cura di Riccardo Greco, 2024 

In foreground: David Rickard’s Cosmic Field (3.7. MHz), behind Mariateresa Sartori’s works about time

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THE PATHETIC ONES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

video, loop, 2018, b/w, sound

with Kiki Dellisanti, Giovanni Dinello, Gustavo Frigerio, Antonella Mancino, Matilde Sambo

camera Furio Ganz, editing Mariateresa Sartori

music from Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Symphonie No 6 (Pathétique) op.74 in B minor director Yevgeny Mravinsky

thanks to: Ferruccio Busetto, Giorgio Busetto, Augusto Maurandi, Fabio Naccari, Lucia Veronesi, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Venezia

The Pathetic Ones, link to the video

The Pathetics move like puppets with motivations that elude us, passing from joy to despair, from fear to serenity, from aggression to desolation, abruptly, with no apparent motives other than internal ones made manifest by the music. They are driven by unconscious inner drives that determine dynamics, facts and destinies. Everything changes quickly and everything repeats itself in a kind of carousel without beginning or end. This is a work about human nature. We are “The Pathetics”.

 

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Etude N.10 op. 25 Homage to Chopin 2021

 

 

 

Performers: Gustavo frigerio Mariateresa Sartori

piano: Vittorio Maggioli

2021

                                                                                                                        ”…you are the music

                                                                                                                                  While the music lasts”

                                                                                                                                                         T.S. Eliot

 

This new version features the young talent Vittorio Maggioli at the piano and, as performers, actor Gustavo Frigerio and myself. I felt the need to take an active part, notwithstanding the admirable performance of the 2011 version with Paola Pasqual and Fausto Sartori. Conceptually nothing has changed from the previous version, which is why I attach texts, comments and reviews from 2011. 

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