Roberto Casti sees his works as symbiotic entities, experiential compositions in which the artistic intervention blends with the environment. They are a reflection, therefore also a contradiction, of the world that we inhabit. A world where the human rules no longer work, where faith in the individual, who dissociates himself from the community, collapses. Art can’t be an individual practice anymore. Yes, the artwork born from the artist and his needs, but then it gives itself to the world. It’s a constant collaboration between the intention of the artist and the world that surrounds him. The artwork is an experiential composition in which every single element - materials, thoughts of the artist and the audience, air, smells, sounds, temperature, light, etc. - connects to give life to a collective awareness about “being here and now in this Universe”. The aim of Roberto Casti's artworks is to preserve their own “incomprehensible otherness” then questioning the Reality in which the human being lives. In this historic moment we cannot afford a fulfilling art, we need a confrontation with what we try to hide in our lives.
Roberto Casti sees his works as symbiotic entities, experiential compositions in which the artistic intervention blends with the environment. They are a reflection, therefore also a contradiction, of the world that we inhabit. A world where the human rules no longer work, where faith in the individual, who dissociates himself from the community, collapses. Art can’t be an individual practice anymore. Yes, the artwork born from the artist and his needs, but then it gives itself to the world. It’s a constant collaboration between the intention of the artist and the world that surrounds him. The artwork is an experiential composition in which every single element - materials, thoughts of the artist and the audience, air, smells, sounds, temperature, light, etc. - connects to give life to a collective awareness about “being here and now in this Universe”. The aim of Roberto Casti's artworks is to preserve their own “incomprehensible otherness” then questioning the Reality in which the human being lives. In this historic moment we cannot afford a fulfilling art, we need a confrontation with what we try to hide in our lives.