ARTIST
Aldo Sergio was born in Salerno in 1982. After graduating in art, he studied anthropology at the University of Perugia, an experience that led him to develop a holistic approach to art.
“I obstruct what we think we know.
While it may seem artificial to obstruct an image, every real situation contains doubt, and my job is to highlight certainties by omission.
To emphasize certainties by omission and, in doing so, I hope to preserve doubt. I am interested in the visual and intellectual consequences of the disappearance of a certainty. If the task of contemporary art is to understand the mechanism of thought, in my work I feel the need to alter, to provoke in the spectator his conscience, his certainties and his doubts.
This is how the artist manages to create two movements, one vertical, the other horizontal.
Vertical in the viewer's mind, rising in response to the content of the work, and a horizontal movement of physically moving toward and away from the canvas, in an effort to draw the viewer's attention, in order to find a clearer visual experience of the canvas.
There are four parts to his universe: the divine, the human, the classical and the contemporary. Everything he does can be located somewhere on this four-axis space. It can be close to heaven but still contain a strong connection to Italian folklore. Then there is the next step, censorship, the obscuring of certainty.
