MUSEO DI STORIA INNATURALE

by DARIO GHIBAUDO

The oniric and visionary world of sculptor Dario Ghibaudo arrives at HoperAperta with three pieces from his Museo di Storia Innaturale: the first, Et Cauda Superius Alterum Inferius, is a double tail made of white cement, marble dust, and metal, will be exposed in the courtyard at palazzo Recalcati. The second is Busti Imperatori, one male and one female bust, made of white clay. The third is Siamo Dei, which uses the 17th century technique of anamorphosis in which a deformed image becomes clear and proportional if viewed from a certain angle. Siamo Dei's anamorphosis uses three different images to create a single painting. The central image, which is on the bottom, is only visible head on. The other two are glued back-to-back, then cut into strips and assembled in sequence so one appears on the left and one on the right. It's a method of portraying a multitude of images that come together to tell a very short story about the subject.

 Dario Ghibaudo. Milanese artist, he has been building his Museo di Storia Innaturale (Museum of Unnatural History) since 1991. The conceptual space is composed, much like a real museum, of many exhibition halls, each inspired by a facet of his artistic exploration. The Museum is home to a parallel world, varied and heterogeneous, full of three-dimensional pieces that often begin as sketches and include a wide variety of materials. Living beings that seem normal at first glance, but are marked by evident discrepancies with reality, inhabit the museum, pulling observers into a new world of complex connections that hold within them both the history of evolution and future possibilities. Humanity, on the other hand, is ironically analyzed in all its grotesque and immutable reality. His work is part of many public and private collections, among which Chateau d'Oiron (FR), Stuttgart Kunstmuseum, Mart Rovereto, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art of Yerevan (Armenia),  Vaf collection Frankfurt,  Igav Foundation Torino, La Gaia Collection, Busca (CN).