Untitled (Ingres)

"For "I'll Be There Forever", Simone Berti observes the history of art to create paintings inspired by the Flemish Renaissance painting ladies, in which the white headphones that frame the faces of the female figures are transformed into imaginary architectures, which shifts from the two-dimensionality of the painting to the three-dimensionality of sculpture. Berti's paintings are set in structures that create a total environment, multiplied and reflected by the mirrors. Thus, we find ourselves within an alienating and challenging context in which art, architecture and the environment take different, ambigue connotations. It is the aesthetics of Simone Berti, in which things, understood in the complexity that Michel Foucault attributes to them in "Words and Things" (1966), begin to live their own life; there are not even words to define them; an invention that can not be traced back to a codified language. The works of Berti are inventions: suspended gardens in springtime; men installed on pedestals and placed at the sides of an entrance like a classic herme; projects for dwellings within trees reminding of Il barone rampante novel (1957) by Italo Calvino; lounges raised to the height of centenary plants, placed in a wood in the sunlight." Cloe Piccoli