Valerio Volpato
's practice moves across painting, sculpture, performance, and sound without settling into any single discipline. He paints almost exclusively in black, gesturally and fast. Keeping rational thought from interfering with what surfaces. The memory of fear is his medium. More recently he has been applying aerospace and automotive materials to objects that don't require them. Carbon fiber and kevlar on animal enclosures and cages. Deliberate short circuits. His sound practice is declaredly undisciplined, with a reverence for unpredictability. Absence of rules as organizing principle. Like riding a powerful machine without fully controlling it.