Extrema Ratio

Extrema Ratio are not orthodox, they are heterogeneous and dissident, they do not unfold by tame codes but by collisions and frictions, attractions and repulsions, lacerations and sutures in an inexhaustible challenge towards the impossible. They refuse the representation of objects intending to express concepts between omens of the abyss, absolute tension and aspiration to elsewhere, they feed the oblique charm of the hybrid, of the unclassifiable where the style, in a mosaic of clots, make them a parameter and not an epigone. They tear up the rules to cut off the gordian knot of intuition along a path that reveals itself through relationships of possibilities between hidden and evident fragments, exasperating the conflict between authenticity and dissimulation with an almost suicidal audacity. They are a non-idiomatic intersection point, a crucible where the depths of signifier get invented, collide and establish new osmotic relationships experimenting solutions and stimulating evocations. It is unthinkable to mediate them and define concatenations to force them into a monumental place or push them into an explicit area; as a composite and changeable organism they don’t lend themselves to any definitions and they are completely independent of a spatial and temporal transcription, they are not affirmative, but doubtful.

Through the incubation and agitation of the stylistic means and of the expressive elements, the symptoms of an interest in the actions that dismember and cut, shatter and multiply the elements, they look for the insoluble and uncertain, trauma and therapy, the autoptic and the metaphysical, investigate ostension and mystery, the liturgy and iconoclasm, damnation and atonement to sublimate them in the springy elegy of the anxious opposites, in the dazzling apology of the totalizing immersion. Solve et coagula is the alchemical apophtegm of the dialogic interpenetration of their inspiration.

The vital moment, proceeding by dissonances and counterpoints, definitively breaks the order and configuration, it breaks up to disorientate, eradicates and atomizes itself in an unresolved and formless condition: the ambition is to communicate a feeling, devitalize iconic impact to forge the extrusion of his sign, translating the gesture into matter to make the physicality flow that impregnates them in the magnetic testimony of acting.

Avoiding the sliced mask to transfigure and disguise themselves, they summarize the darkness in the light with the sharp and lethal scratch of the exterminating angel: they do not aspire to separate them, but to highlight their strength of expansion and fertilization.

The dissipating figures, the quivering gestures and the visceral ruins, the torments and alarms, the anxieties and the sweetnesses express the mutiny in front of the sordid dictatorship of the present day and the travail of an urgency that wants to free itself overcoming every limit, to become "subversive" enlightenment whose militant charge will explode in splinters and wounds, contradictions and metamorphoses, yearning and harmony, in the density of a non-virtual revolt.

Cretti and combustions, multiple light, drizzling dripping, gashes and spatial concepts to make free the search for infinity; unique forms of the continuity of space, ready-made and viennese actionism aktion, the hypostasis of an atonal and ardent, performative, cathartic and above all antagonistic collapse. Indifferent to a canon, they demolish the restrictions to design an arena of immediacy and simultaneity, contemplation and action, displacement and sabotage where magmatic turbines and spasmodic prefigurations blaze in the inexhaustible cyclical change from heuristic instrument to assault machine. Show less