CRAG – Chiono Reisova Art Gallery presents Slant of Light, a solo exhibition by Alessandro Cardinale, introducing to the public for the first time a new and previously unseen body of sculptures from the Scherzi di Luce (Play of Light) series, the result of over two years of research and experimentation into the relationship between matter, light and perception.
The exhibition marks a new chapter in the artist’s practice, which has always focused on the conditions that make the appearance of form possible. In Cardinale’s work, sculpture is not a defined and immutable volume, but rather takes shape through the interplay between presence and absence, solids and voids, light and shadow. The work does not present itself to the viewer as a complete image; instead, it gradually reveals itself, transforming in relation to the surrounding space and the observer’s position.
At the heart of the exhibition is the Scherzi di Luce (Play of Light) series, in which Cardinale takes this investigation to a new level, treating light not as an element to be represented, but as a material to be shaped.