Art Orienté Objet
Galleria Emi Fontana
The name of the French artistic team Art Orienté Objet also contains an explicit declaration of intention. Theirs is an art oriented toward objects, understood, as they say, as all that is presented to the mind and can be related to an external reality. Objects transmit affective signals wedded to their form or function and expressed in a chain of unpredictable associations that generate other objects.
Their investigation into the interpersonal relationships between prisoners led to this installation, their first solo exhibition in Italy. Two chairs were connected by long shoelaces through a