Un assoluto al posto di Dio

Un assoluto al posto di Dio is the title of Alessandro Fogo’s (*1992) second solo exhibition with Cassina Projects. The artist introduces a new body of work in which he continues his exploration of the sacred, the mythological, and the symbolic. The exhibition presents a collection of references from different times and contexts, not only to layer meaning, but to bring what belongs to an abstract and allegorical realm closer to what is intimate, personal, and everyday. What ultimately emerges from this interplay of symbols is not an escape into a dream or fantasy, but a reframing of reality itself, revealing it in a new and unfamiliar way.

At the core of the exhibition is the idea of the divine Absolute, a concept widely examined in philosophy, but one that today appears to take on new and shifting meanings. The sacred, perhaps unconsciously, has been replaced by personal absolutes that guide humankind in the face of existential uncertainty. Moving away from a purely nihilistic view, the artist treats this emptiness as an open question. Fogo sees it as a void that can be filled with his own pantheon, a constellation of personal and iconographic references, suggesting the possibility of new mythologies and new ways of representing them.