In the heart of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the pictorial and visual artist Daniel Rietti (Las Palmas, 1991) inaugurated Es una transformación at the beginning of the year, at the island's Plastic Arts Center.
When an artist explores different formats from which to express their world and context, art expands intersectionally. From there, whether through painting, installation, or photography, Daniel Rietti configures a language of listening and observation, turning the mundane into the playful, and this is evident in Es una transformación, the artist's latest exhibition.
The exhibition at the CAP thus presented the artist's most conscious side, with a delicate sensibility for the aesthetic of plasticity. Rietti's photographic archive is not alien to his pictorial work. By putting his entire body of work into perspective, the formal and everyday nature of objects and spaces become a game that seems to paralyze time. Observing his photographs, one wonders: what happened there? What has happened since the photo was taken until now?
"This exhibition is almost like an installation. My idea is to exalt photography's ability to freeze time, and to highlight the collective and democratic."
- Daniel Rietti
The influences of Pop Art and advertising manifest themselves with power and personality in Rietti's work. And although aesthetics are central to this exhibition, the images seek to delve into the background of common codes that allow for the identification of a common beauty accessible to all.
Curated by Romina Llaguno, Es una transformación above all comprises the artist's intimacy, demonstrating Daniel's great facility for dialoguing with his spatial context by contrasting a micro and macro vision with the same attention and care. Sometimes, it is the emptiness of an immense space; other times, the gaze upon the most particular detail. Thus, at times the exhibition requires approaching the photographs to appreciate the tiniest captured by the camera; on other occasions, it is convenient to step back and understand the whole. A cultural proposal that avoids trends and provides a value of healthy escapism, rest, and play to current reality.
The exhibition seeks to continue its journey as a touring exhibition, spreading the art of the Canary Islands to other islands as well as to the peninsula.
Credits:
Images: Es una transformación Exhibition, Daniel Rietti. Photography by Ángel Medina, Centro de Artes Plásticas, LPGC
