In Lausanne, Alfredo Aceto makes art in the folds of reality

Published on June 27, 2024 at 12:39 p.m. / Modified on June 27, 2024 at 1:16 p.m.

Alfredo Aceto scrutinizes the world with an acuity that is unique to him. He digs between the folds of reality, extracts, like an archaeologist, snippets of meaning, portions of our common and singular reality to expose traces, testimonies, representations, interpretations. The artist, born in Turin in 1991, graduated from the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) – where he teaches today – and from the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles (MSA), winner of a Leenaards scholarship in 2019 and finalist of the Swiss Art Awards 2024, likes to bring together various stories, then collect and exhibit the sparks or scattered fragments produced by the shock, more or less violent, of their encounter.

Full Moon Sergio, at the Circuit contemporary art center in Lausanne, uses this method. Alfredo Aceto summons destinies and contexts that interest him. Here, the figure of a great Italian automobile industry boss, now deceased, Sergio Marchionne, nicknamed by the press “the man in the sweater” and a very ancient Neolithic culture that appeared in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, named Cucuteni-Trypillia, probably matriarchal culture – the statues of women, unlike the statues of working men, are armless, explains Alfredo Aceto, who himself took part in archaeological excavations. In this culture, the circle and the feminine play an important social and symbolic role.

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