Danilo Bastione

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"Consciously provisional and "under construction", but at the same time also about the poetic and to a certain extent the romantic." Bastione's work rejects identification with patterns and structures; hardly anything is defined and fixed.

Bastione's practice addresses issues of alienation and explores how new cultural forms are established. In particular, he asks how these can influence our social coexistence in areas of tension between different cultures.

Using strategies that seem deliberately "casual" and "creative" in an almost naïve way, Bastione increasingly incorporates his motifs and materials in morally questionable ways and plays with the absurd and grotesque.

He often uses discarded or found materials for this purpose, which give the works an ambiguous and at the same time representative meaning by deconstructing rather than re-presenting a concept.

Currently, Bastione's work explores how technology and science merge with questions about the nature of the political and the dimension of the social.