MAPS
Collages using atlas images and nautical charts, rearranged to create new and unexpected landscapes.
HUMAN_NATURE 2023, Künstlerhaus Wien -Land escape series- 340 x 205 cm, collage on canvas, Binoculars, Photo Pablo Chiereghin
Alberto Storari’s art is about exploring boundaries, crossing them and pursuing an unconventional approach.
Above all, however, he takes a stand – sometimes playfully, sometimes argumentatively. He encourages us not to blindly accept restrictions, but to question them.
Even when we do accept limitations, he urges us to realise that we can change the realities imposed by photography and cartography, both politically and socially, as well as on an individual level.Hartwig Knack
-Land escape series- 2023, site specific, 340 x 205 cm, collage on canvas, binoculars (details)
YOU ARE HERE
Extending the logic of cartography into public space, the work engages directly with systems of orientation and everyday movement.
“You Are Here”, 2024
Site-specific installation, Red Carpet Showroom, U3 Volkstheater station, Vienna
Collage using atlas imagery, installation on a glass box
Nautical Chart Series (2014–ongoing)
Mixed media on nautical charts
Nautical charts become spaces of memory, where semi-figurative interventions evoke the emotional dimension of travel.
In his artistic practice, Alberto Storari creates atmospheric images that convey longing, nostalgia and melancholic similarities to a dream, an almost faded memory or, as in the ‘Chart Series’, fragmented documents from a bygone era.
For Storari, photography is memory, while painting is more emotion.
He combines photographs with painterly materials and surfaces and develop complex analogue transfer techniques on various substrates in order to further subject the photographic motifs to the painting process.”
Daniela Wageneder-Stelzhammer
Looking Elsewhere Being There
2024 CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
inks and decoloration on geographycal chart, frame
inks and decoloration on geographycal chart
Land escape series 2021-2025
Large-scale collages on maps and painted surfaces, where fragmented landscapes are reassembled into immersive spatial compositions.
Starting from a common conceptual framework, my work is based on long-term artistic research in which space and time are examined as constructed systems rather than fixed realities.
I question the idea of a single point of view and destabilise forms of knowledge commonly perceived as objective or absolute, such as cartography, scientific data and orientation systems.
With the help of maps, photographs, manuals, and sculptural and pictorial elements, I develop alternative geographies in which boundaries, lines, and coordinates become fluid and negotiable.
Rather than rewriting existing geographies or traditions, my work opens up new perspectives and challenges cultural and visual stereotypes.
The Land Escape series can be understood as a sort of alternative atlas, in which continuity and separation coexist and scientific data becomes something other than itself.
