De-Posizioni

The work donated by Pozzati to the Hospice is part of his De-Positions series from 2006 in which he places the “corpse” in an unexpected location: a “different” location where it is laid in different “positions” as if removed from its deliberately theatrical effect. In these works Pozzati suspends the instant of irony and satire, calling the viewer to spend a moment of reflection, asking him to try to go further than a time when, as the artist states: “we were all descended or taken down by the slaughter of the latest trends, by the idea of art as art, by the critics’ concept of art, rampant standardisation, perhaps even by history”. With his unmistakeable style, Pozzati offers us this very refined multi-media collage where the person taken down (from the cross)... is the artist.