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Minimi Naturali is a two-person exhibition featuring artists Andrea Pertoldeo and Marit Wolters.
The concept of Minimi naturali, drawing from Aristotle’s philosophy, refers to “the smallest parts into which a substance can be divided without losing its essential character.” Aristotle rejects the concept of the void, advocating instead for a continuous space-time that renders any object occupying a certain volume theoretically infinitely divisible. The Minimi naturali are what “remains” of this division, preserving the essential qualities of a substance. Through their use of different media, namely photography and sculpture, Pertoldeo and Wolters engage in a search for reduction to essence and spatial-temporal continuity.
The works of both artists—a concise and completed photographic series, Il Roseto, and a series of acrylic sculptures, Seamless—invite a subtle, allusive recognition. Viewers find themselves immersed and, at times, distractedly lost within a perimeter—the exhibition space—that, through these works, which serve as prime examples of the “natural minimum,” directs the gaze without constraining or limiting the space of possibility.
Andrea Pertoldeo (Udine, 1971) is a photographer and professor of photography at the Iuav University of Venice, and co-founder, with Stefano Graziani, of the Iuav Master’s program in Photography. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and research projects focused on contemporary landscape photography and has published photographic works in various international books and journals.
Marit Wolters (Achim, Germany, 1985) lives and works in Vienna. Her practice primarily revolves around sculpture and installation, with a focus on the physical and architectural context of the exhibition space. Notable solo exhibitions include Everything That Is Solid Dissolves Into Air, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2018); Stranger Being, Whitedwarf, Vienna (2018); and That’s Somehow Greek To Me, Oktogon, Dresden (2016).
Minimi Naturali
October 27 – December 22, 2021
Metronom, Via carteria 10, 41121, Modena
