MARTIN HOCHLEITHNER

Exhibition catalogue, Museum

The works of the Italian Vinicio Momoli, documented in this catalogue, are configured, not only for the precision of the formal, coloristic and material reflections, as a logical continuation of his current development; above all, the growing creative reduction is accompanied by a more subtle complexity of his works.
Momoli adopts the parallelepiped as a form of work pregnant with this most recent development of his, a form whose effect (above all regardless of colour, material and surface) he varies, mainly through the different height, between that of a voluminous body and that of a flat surface, thus determining the decisive way in the transposition, possible attributions of his works to object art or to painting.
This is reflected in the fact that, even in the presentation, Momoli uses his own "formal objects" both imaginatively on the wall and objectively, almost, and, more precisely, uses them as an element of a spatial system and, thanks to the consequent ambivalence of the effect also leads the exhibited pieces to different discursive situations.
The artist thematizes with the single object, which he creates monochromatically, and with different materials, such as wood, plaster or rubber, an aesthetics of color and materials in the same way in which he touches, in a series of multiple fundamental structures understood in a concrete-constructive and analyses, within the system, the effectiveness of the space.
Although the individual works establish numerous and well-known relationships with central questions of 20th century art and, as a consequence of the reduction to the fundamental structures of pictorial processes, although they have appeared several times in this form, they nevertheless arouse emotion, having Momoli created simultaneously with its "formal objects" of modules which, in this discursive system, can be used in a specific way, make cross-connections possible and, despite - or precisely as a result of their formal reduction, refer to complex structures.

Martin Hochleitner Exhibition catalogue, Museum
Arbeitswelt Steyr (Austria),
Gallery Polhammer Steyr (Austria)