Chimica organica (Organic Chemistry), 1988

Senza titolo (Untitled), 1991-92

Clint, 1994-95

Stefano Arienti (Asola-Mantua, 1961) submits the most banal and common objects taken from everyday reality - such as telephone books, comic strips, train schedules - to a repetitive and almost maniacal process of manipulation. He thus transforms them into sculptures that, while maintaining the fragile and perishable nature of the medium utilized, reveal the artist’s interest in the implicit communicative potential of images belonging to mass culture.

The point of departure for Chimica Organica (Organic Chemistry) is an old university text, the pages of which are then folded, glued, and finally clamped to form a long snake. Periodically positioned in a different manner, depending on the exhibition space, this anthropomorphic sculpture continually changes its shape to adapt itself to its designated place, following an almost-Darwinian process.