"Totem" by Alberto De Braud.

Cast aluminum
77 x 12 x 12 cm
2020

The Totem is presented as a repetition of history and of man, which changes radically if viewed from different standpoints. It is a replica, the image of likeness, similar but not equal creatures.

Alberto de Braud was born in Milan in 1959. He studied at Rhode Island School of Design: B.F.A. 1983, San Francisco Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, City College.

Alberto de Braud is passionate about accumulation, sequences, multiplication. In his works in which objects, now decontextualized, are repeated, some critics have seen the emphasis on the dimension of interplay, others the bankrupt attempt of man to rise up, always frustrated by the sense of precariousness. The recurring thread of de Braud's works remains the concept of a metaphorical idea in which this process provides the viewer only fragments of reality, meaningless empty signs, which when put together take on a new meaning, which is arbitrary and imposed by the artist.

Project by Olimpia Rospigliosi curated by Bohdan Stupak. Between 14 and 22 July it will be possible to view the works exclusively on appointment at the Studio Rospigliosi in Piazza Borromeo 10 in Milan, Italy.