Lea Vergine

NEUROSIS AND SUBLIMATIO
UGO NESPOLO The last outcome of Dada. It is a year in fact, that Nespolo is oriented towards the manufacturing work whose tense and ultimate meanings are very close to Dada.
Sheets of plywood, imitation leather, burlap, rope, glass and plastic resin, paper and cardboard, used for the construction of machines and objects created under syllogistic conditionality and implication. The "modus tollens" of the non sense. The "credo quia absurdum". The "come se" by Kantiana memory.
Objects which impose themselves, aside the literary and philosophical suggestions, always latent. They are the ones that reach a rigorous absoluteness, where the formal ability in the selection of the combination of the materials has the major role, that is the chromatic, the "enclosure", the "register", the wrapping paper cut like a hedge and strung on a bolt. And here is meaningful, the denial Dadaist.

(From the magazine: Metro, Rivista Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea, n. 14, giugno 1968, Alfieri Edizioni d’Arte, Venezia)