Republic of welcome

Arnold Mario Dall’O’s work pays a tribute to image. It springs out of a profound observation of the real world which is processed, disassembled and overlapped in a process condensing sensory experience. The visual component plays a leading role, and Dall’O’s signs foster thinking by drawing from popular and familiar imagery. Republic of Welcome, a neverending source of dream-like and fantastic visions, draws its strength from the reiteration of graphic signs, endless matching of words and images. Bodies, still lives, human organs, drawings of animals multiply, thus shaping seemingly illogical or irrational compositions, which engender relations and links in a sort of combinatory rationale. Conceptually-distant places mix and renovate, from explicit Eros to architectural elements, in constantly diverse associations and repetitions. Republic of Welcome is a book evoking other readings in its amplification of symbols, a refined open archive made of drawings, wax paintings and installations in outdoors areas.

Arnold Mario Dall’O was born in Bolzano, Italy. He studied in the Fine Arts Academy of Venice with Emilio Vedova, then moved to Vienna in the Salzburg’s Summer Academy. He became one of the assistants of Vedova and Sandro Chia. He taught communication design in the Design Academy of Bolzano from 1988 to 2002. Different personal and collective exhibitions in Italian Museums, such as MART, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, the Modern Art Gallery of Bologna and KunstMeran/ Merano Arte.