Andrea Mastrovito's 'La Diseducazione al Reale' at Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice

Andrea Mastrovito (Bergamo, 1978) presents 'La Diseducazione al Reale' at Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice, a solo exhibition exploring the disintegration and reassembly of the concept of truth through layered materials and realist graphite reproductions tinged with surreality. The show invites viewers to re-examine the familiar with renewed critical spirit, engaging their inner world as co-protagonist. Key works include 'Ultime pagine', 'Storia di un fiore', 'Conversazioni', and 'L'uomo che poteva fare miracoli', evoking a stolen childhood and altered innocence. The titular section features an engraved teacher's desk and blackboard, plus twelve desks depicting elementary school subjects, with erasures suggesting new forms and personal interpretations. The blackboard engraving 'Insegnante di Melancolia' shows a teacher with a Platonic solid for a head, signaling the impossibility of accessing an 'ultimate' reality due to misleading education. Video trailers for Mastrovito's films 'NYsferatu' and 'Io non sono leggenda' further subvert signifier-signified relationships, producing mental short-circuits between concepts, signs, images, and derived ideas through masterful rewriting of original film frames.