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Without light his works would not be visible, not because they are wreathed in total darkness, but because they would be deprived of their main essence, their poetic power. Luminous energy is a source of life and Uberti reinforces it in this role in the art world. In his research light does not only have the task of revealing the work, but also that of making it a material apparition, of holding it together in its conceptual coherency, offering it to the visitor as a passage outside the void. The artist’s investigation of form, though starting with some characteristics shared by his generation, that which at the start of the 1990s ran up against the dispersal of form, has eluded any constraints in terms of style, broken every rule with its free use of the widest range of media. It has been experienced in individuality with an extreme rigor that reminds us of the controlled steps of a tightrope walker. And, as for the acrobat, it is not a question of technique or artifice, but instead of a natural tendency to walk on the edge, to measure each step, to experience vertigo as a real emotion, in his case the virtual character of the luminous phenomenon in its evanescence and physical essence.
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Marco Mazzini: Places for Poetic Inhabitants, In: After the gold rush, Maretti Edition, Forli 2015
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