Arnold Mario Dall'O's Unsettling Portraits of the Unknown Dead in Trento
At Galleria Paolo Maria Deanesi in Trento, Arnold Mario Dall'O presents a series of untitled works sourced from online police archives featuring photographs of unidentified deceased or missing persons. The artist employs a meticulous contemporary pointillism technique, occasionally smudging the image, to aestheticize the problem of disappearance rather than aid identification. The cycle, ongoing since 2016, evokes references to Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, and Sigmar Polke. Dall'O (born 1960 in Lana) continuously reworks these images in a laboratory-like process.
Key facts
- Arnold Mario Dall'O was born in Lana in 1960.
- The exhibition is held at Galleria Paolo Maria Deanesi in Trento.
- The portraits are taken from online documentary archives of international police forces.
- The photographs depict unidentified dead or missing persons.
- The technique used is a contemporary pointillism, sometimes smudged.
- The artist does not aim to help recover lost identities.
- The work references Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, and Sigmar Polke.
- All works are untitled and the cycle has been ongoing since 2016.
Entities
Artists
- Arnold Mario Dall'O
- Christian Boltanski
- Gerhard Richter
- Sigmar Polke
- Claudio Cucco
Institutions
- Galleria Paolo Maria Deanesi
- Artribune
- Biblioteca di Calliano
Locations
- Trento
- Lana
- Malles Venosta
- Rovereto
- Bologna
- Calliano
- Italy