Critical text by curator Wagner Nardy about Vortex series and Body series
 

Sergio Allevato is interested in what is hidden behind everyday images. His gaze searches popular markets, fabrics, newsstands, comic books, gardens, botanical records, advertising and propaganda scattered around the city, in search of those political messages camouflaged there.

 

From the discussion between sovereignty and cultural independence, and the urgent need for a new alliance between the individual and the environment, works emerge that aesthetically bring a conflict installed by the artist; the tension between abstraction and figuration.

 

They are paintings of great stimulating power, material and organic, but they also bring superficial and cold elements that sometimes slice them and sometimes tie them together. 

 

This set of paintings aims to create a rich experience by opening many doors to understanding complex social objects, colonialism and sustainability. With superb technical precision, they are works of great artistic density.

 

The Vortex, immortalized in a popular American cartoon, becomes a portal that allows important borders to be crossed and that reveals invisible forces that hide on the other side.

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