In Massimo Uberti’s career, light has always been at the centre of a coherent process of reduction. As he sought to gain control over light, his effort was directed at reducing it to its essence in order to liberate its potential. He treats it as a physical phenomenon to be understood and tended, as a way of representing the visible in painting. In his photographs it has become a staple technical instrument and at the same time a format of display. Finally, in his installations, he strips it of all other substance and makes it his raw material, to the point where it is the work. In Tendente infinito, conceived within the framework of the Dreams of a possible city project, the urge to reduce everything to the essential is reflected in the ideal nature of the city, Filarete’s Sforzinda. This an impalpable and extreme object to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away. Space is only illumination, in the twofold sense of a source of light and enlightenment, and it is thanks to the meticulous sacrifice of volume in the quest for lightness that it succeeds in becoming infinite, generating, as if by hybridization, new and other spaces beyond its confines.
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