Sodobna umetnost (Aljoša Abrahamsberg), 16. december 2023 ― Michele Spanghero's (Gorizia, 1979) proposal for his first solo show at the Venetian space of Alberta Pane gallery stems from considerations some recent, some long-standing, which have resurfaced or emerged while working on his retrospective Tracks, on view at Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, at the Palazzetto Tito venue in Venice. Starting from the late 18th-century Diderottian expression, L'esprit de l'escalier unfolds among sculptural-installative works, photographs and drawings, within a conceptual use of sound. Concealing and unmasking, the artist conceives time-layered works, in which the absence and the impossibility of memory are central; form and thought sometimes coincide with an almost miraculous ideal and structural tension, sometimes with a poetic resignation when facing the impossibility of making one's voice heard or grasping the elusive. For this exhibition at the gallery, the artist thus suggests a caustic and sensitive reflection, in which second thoughts, reconsiderations and uncertainties inherent in art making become form, substance and unspoken affirmation of meaning. If at Palazzetto Tito visitors have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a universe of sound and projects, in the gallery's exhibition spaces the public can instead follow the unfolding of an in fieri thought: consistent with the reconsiderations inherent in the "spirit of staircase”1, the artist imagines the exhibition as a fertile and permeable ground in which new works can be integrated over the course of the exhibition. A versatile artist whose practice ranges from the field of sound art to sculpture, drawing and photographic research.