Luca Bertolo
The Domain of Painting #43
2008-2009
8.5 x 11 inches
Paint on Artforum Page
ARCADE London
Luca Bertolo born 1968, lives and works in Seravezza, Italy
“If we take culture as the most ‘frivolous and serious’ of activities, we can see how Luca Bertolo’s most recent experimental and playful work might fit into this schema. Through his appropriation of the communicative fashion supplement or art journal advert—which he uses as a substrate to re-inscribe with his singular painterly subjectivity—he creates his own auto-referential Universe, which cannot be reduced to formalism or mere informational conceptualism. Here is an example of painting as a mode of construction and production of subjectivity, a heterogenetic practice in which subjectivity is a further augmentation to the painter’s polychromatic palette.”
– Andrew Osborne, 2009