REPORT AGE
Enlarged images, estranged from their original function. The visual rendering is intensified, revealing fragments whose origin and precise placement are difficult to identify.
Visions of cities no longer made of streets, buildings, or neighborhoods, but of indefinite and erasable boundaries.
MAMMA AMERICA - glimpses
A look at the construction site through the tools of the trade, which can become windows through which to peek at the world. Tools that are the parents of spaces devoted to human dwelling, tied not only to the physical construction of a place but also to its social dimension.
THIN CITIES
The trowel, with its thin metal surface, becomes a digital screen that can be held, thanks to the handle it is equipped with.
STASIS
Trowels that inexplicably cease to function become frozen under a patina that preserves both their inner and outer memory. It is possible to capture this surface layer—residues of dust that safeguard the memory of the object: a moment of stillness in the life of the construction site.
SINDONEEDILE Construction Shroud
The Construction Shroud, the shroud of a building tool, a secular relic that is not venerated in any place of worship. It simply reveals itself and its strange cosmic patterns, unable to display images of cities visible or invisible.
Bio
Michelangelo Torretti was born in Rome in 2003, where he currently lives and works. He graduated from the Liceo Artistico Statale Via di Ripetta and is completing his degree at the School of Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He also trained at the School of Arts and Crafts of the Fabbrica di San Pietro in the Vatican.
Through a multidisciplinary approach to art and the use of various techniques and artistic media — ranging from painting to installation — he develops a body of work that explores the relationship between history, personal and collective memory, and the parallel between past and future.
He has curated and participated in cultural projects such as exhibitions and urban art interventions organized by the Municipality of Rome, the Special Superintendence of Rome, the Municipality of Acireale (CT), and cultural associations.
