L'osservatore non l'oggetto osservato, 1985 (2003)

27 elements: copper
dimensions variable
Seeing with the conscience
“Seeing is a complex phenomenon, more closely related to the conscience than to the retina, in the sense that our vision also comprises lots of other details: it is about taking into account—in our vision—odors as well as colors, it is about going through space with one’s mind as well as measuring it from a distance on the retina. It is a way of seeing with an awareness . . . . It is precisely within this complexity of seeing and within the systems of correlation between things that L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato . . . is placed”
(C. Bertola, “Letter,” in Remo Salvadori. L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato, ed. C. Bertola, catalogue of the exhibition at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, March 18–May 8, 2005 [Milan: Charta, 2005], 57, 59)

A materialization of the practice of self-observation
"L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato was therefore, in its single elements, the materialization of the practice of self-observation, while in its physical and process-based entirety it was the representation of the widening of Salvadori’s work to a social and educational plane." 
(Laura Conconi, Maria Corti, Chronology, in Remo Salvadori, ed. Antonella Soldaini [Milan: Skira, 2025], 380)
"Il Cantiere. Remo Salvadori", Palazzo Chigi, San Quirico d'Orcia, 2003
Photo @ Paolo Castaldi

L'osservatore non l'oggetto osservato, 1985 (2003)

27 elements: copper
dimensions variable
Seeing with the conscience
“Seeing is a complex phenomenon, more closely related to the conscience than to the retina, in the sense that our vision also comprises lots of other details: it is about taking into account—in our vision—odors as well as colors, it is about going through space with one’s mind as well as measuring it from a distance on the retina. It is a way of seeing with an awareness . . . . It is precisely within this complexity of seeing and within the systems of correlation between things that L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato . . . is placed”
(C. Bertola, “Letter,” in Remo Salvadori. L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato, ed. C. Bertola, catalogue of the exhibition at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, March 18–May 8, 2005 [Milan: Charta, 2005], 57, 59)

A materialization of the practice of self-observation
"L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato was therefore, in its single elements, the materialization of the practice of self-observation, while in its physical and process-based entirety it was the representation of the widening of Salvadori’s work to a social and educational plane." 
(Laura Conconi, Maria Corti, Chronology, in Remo Salvadori, ed. Antonella Soldaini [Milan: Skira, 2025], 380)
"Il Cantiere. Remo Salvadori", Palazzo Chigi, San Quirico d'Orcia, 2003
Photo © Paolo Castaldi
"L'osservatore non l'oggetto osservato. Remo Salvadori", Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 2005
Photo © Attilio Maranzano
“Expanded Without”, OGR, Turin, 2024
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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