MONTESANO:
the mysterious Energy and silent things
The idea that Montesano cultivates art binds indissoluble measure to a simultaneity in which live in symbiosis different easily identifiable trends, first of all that Art Povera and the issue of recovery of materials that was a true leitmotiv the second half of '900. The starting point of this particular investigation concerns the use of different materials, but consistent in what appears as an enigmatic dialogue, where every detail takes shape and life in relation to the whole. Montesano is not content merely to skillfully assemble things in a mere exercise in abstraction closed. He wants to confer to the compositions a silent and mysterious life, a hidden philosophical meaning when nothing seems really random but, Conversely, everything seems to present a precise and studied placement. Making concrete to evoke ideally, in conclusion. In this context, the spirit of this artist urges purposeful reflections and questions of those secrets that matter contains within itself, and that modern physics is gradually unveiling. Every visible thing has life and movement, and nothing has really unmovable.
Matter is energy in constant connection, and it is strange to consider that his subatomic essence is closer to the spiritual nature than to the solid and concrete, so how could we mistakenly imagine. Each material element has its own shape and vibration, and on it the artist intervenes in a process of 'participation’ which builds metaphysical landscapes, imaginary city in the mini-world, or complex but harmonious interlacing similar to esoteric mazes. But if art is a tangible physical construction, the same can be expanded in space in order to create new effects, new visual situations. At a certain point of its path, the works are massive installations. Montesano always wants to give more strength and intensity to these mental concepts, and face the challenge all the way. The Nature offers endless mysteries, and with it the man interacts through rational thought and intellectual intuition, in a linked combination that can produce functional inventions to life and expressive original works close to a very private feeling in the world. Mind and heart, sky and earth, reality and idealism.
Montesano can establish in this game of opposites a safe compromise. While it manifests a clear executive pragmatism, it is true that the other makes its way the intensity of a specific existential idea. When we look at his works we are certainly in the matter and its combinations but, while, we are out, projected towards a teaching that we can not ignore. Because the harmony of its suggestive materials assembled exceeds the concreteness and seems to show us the way of a perennial philosophy as in a lucid dream, in which all things have a meaning and an ancestral alchemy placement of causes and effects, as in so High Low.
Giancarlo Bonomo
