Gianni Caravaggio and Johannes Wald, two conceptual sculptors whose purist works are imbued with a poetic momentum, meet in unforeseen. While Gianni Caravaggio is directing his gaze into the universe, assuming an existential reality of his art, Johannes Wald’s poetry is the result of a constant questioning of his own artistic existence, starting from the non-rational and exploring the origins of creativity, fantasy and imagination. Wald’s works are self-reflexive in two ways: they deal with the artistic processes that take place in the subconscious and explore how thoughts become objects that conquer the world as materialised entities. At the same time, however, they are reflections on the existential conditions of sculpture, involving the material, formal-aesthetic considerations as well as the historical dimension of the medium.
The works of Gianni Caravaggio, instead, are metaphors of the cosmic order to which reality is subjected. Nature, its forces and phenomena become manifestations of the spirit, which first form in the subjective perception of the viewer, then materialise and thus take on an ever new, individual meaning. They throw us back to our own fateful being within the universal structure, in whose space-time continuum human existence appears null and void, yet miraculous.
In unforeseen, Gianni Caravaggio and Johannes Wald set out together in search of the very essence of art, aware of the fact that it is unpredictable and always in flux.
