Alessandro Padovan (1983) - BERNARD AUBERTIN 2.0

The work arises from an ideal dialogue with the research of Bernard Aubertin, a Nouveau Réalisme artist who made red, repetition and matter central elements of his poetics. In his works, the seriality of simple, everyday elements becomes a language capable of evoking tension, energy, destruction and transformation.

In this work, however, tradition is reinterpreted through an element characteristic of my research: the screw.

Instead of the nails used by Aubertin, I use hundreds of screws, arranged according to a precise geometric structure on the yellow surface. The screw, an element normally associated with assembly, construction and mechanics, is here transformed into an autonomous artistic element. Its repetition generates a three-dimensional surface in which light, shadow and depth continually modify the perception of the work.

The yellow envelops the composition like a surface charged with energy, while the screws emerge from the plane creating a kind of visual vibration. From a frontal view the composition appears orderly and minimalist; observing it from the side, however, its true three-dimensional and material nature emerges.

The work is not intended to be a simple quotation of Aubertin, but a contemporary reinterpretation of his language, replacing the nail with the screw and transforming an industrial object into an artistic sign.

The screw thus becomes a symbol of construction and destruction at the same time: what normally serves to join and fix is used to create an uneasy, intense and deeply material surface.

It is precisely in this contrast between order and tension, construction and destruction, two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality that the identity of the work is born.

Work by the artist Alessandro Padovan, famous worldwide for his Screw Art technique.

The work is enhanced by a Plexiglas case.

The transparent case isolates and protects, transforming the work into a contemporary relic.

The works of this contemporary artist fit into the line of Pop Art, Screw Art, conceptual art and urban art, calling in visual language and cultural impact to the work of great names such as Andy Warhol, Jean‑Michel Basquiat, Banksy, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, Fontana, Imbue, obey, Padovan, Schifano, Nicole Lubbers, Bani, kev munday invader, murakami and Damien Hirst.
Allo stesso tempo, the artistic research dialogues with the imagery of luxury, iconic fashion and global design, evoking sacred symbols and universally recognized brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel, Hermès, Rolex, Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini.

The works are not replicas nor official collaborations with the artists or brands cited, but original creations, produced with a personal style that reflects a critique and a rereading of consumerism, the symbolic value of the brand and art as a contemporary cultural object.

This approach makes the works particularly appreciated by collectors and enthusiasts of contemporary art, luxury Pop Art, conceptual street art and art inspired by iconic great brands, while maintaining a strong autonomous artistic identity.