Natural outstandings

 

We like to return on Chris Mottalini’s portfolio, after having written about his series Mistake By The Lake, to report a curious as unprecedented evolution in his expressive research toward a constructivism of reality and more especially of nature. A nature ambiguosly represented and contaminated through the introduction of natural yet indigenous elements. A manipulation occasionally made even more explicit by the presence of extraneous and artificial objects. Mottalini chooses a smaller scale to draw and interpret, in a personal way, a very common theme. He offers us a soft vision, less impressive and insidious, however, symbolic of human action on the environment. And it seems that these microrealities placed in the foreground by Mottalini and originated from a personal experience, that of subscribing to a mineral club, deliberately pose unresolved questions. In this sense we rediscover Mottalini’s style, that explores the unexpected with ease, and leaves the viewer a residual room of interpretation.

 

 

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© Courtesy of Chris Mottalini

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