Damiano Bertoli

Australia

D.O.B: 05/07/2025 D.O.D: 07/09/2021

Damiano Bertoli was one of the most highly regarded artists of his generation (1969-2021). Damiano’s practice connected various points in history, utilising familiar and referential motifs in order to realise what he referred to as the ‘Continuous Moment’. His work investigates artistic experiments and theoretical legacies that inform the history of modernism and contemporary art. Picasso’s 1941 surrealist play “Le Desire Attrape par la Queue” held strong fascination for Bertoli, whose “Continuous Moment: Le désir” series reimagined and restaged this play. Bertoli's work interrogates the narrative of time, critically positioning his own and other artists' work in a continuum.