Volcan Lamp By Alberto Vitelio

Volcan lamp by Alberto VitelioMaterial: fiberglass, resin, polyurethane paint.Dimensions: H 187 x W 50 x D 30 cm.Alberto Vitelio was born in Santiago de Chile in 1990, in a newly installed democracy after 17 years of military-civic dictatorship. The cultural blackout, persecution, and censorship of this period endowed the artistic scene with a profoundly dissident and anti-establishment voice. From 1990 onwards, art in Chile remained on the margins, while the territory became the laboratory for Milton Friedman's neoliberal politics. From a young age, Alberto showed a deep interest in nature's mysteries. Archaeological vestiges, fossils, and lava, all shapes, and colors, spread over the earth's surface. It is no coincidence that his work evokes a cave-like aesthetic, mysterious, silent, but at the same time magnetic and imposing. Unintentionally, Vitelio breaks with the sanitized and rigid notion of beauty and gives rise to an intimate experience, that confronts us with a magnetism that stirs our entrails. What seems viscous, shiny, rigid, and at the same time fluid, confronts us with what human nature seeks to silence: our own darkness.