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Shattered Temporal Sym ilphony
Artist: Vito Antonio Lerario (Bari, Italy/Bari)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Digital collage on black Forex with Fuji print | Dimensions: 40x30 centimeters | Display: Wall-hung (2D) | Digital work
Artist Statement
In the vortex of disintegrating time, where centuries collapse upon themselves through layers of digital interference, a visual portal opens that defies all chronology. The skyscraper,a titanic monolith of concrete and ambition,stands like a totem of the modern era, its illuminated windows silent witnesses to thousands of parallel existences. Yet it trembles, fragments, dissolving under the weight of glitches that distort its very substance.
The vinyl glove,black, shiny, unsettling in its surgical precision,floats in space like the relic of an interrupted gesture, of a contact that never occurred or perhaps already consummated. An ambiguous symbol of protection or distance, of control or sterility, suspended between the mechanical present and the organic past.
At the foot of this temporal chaos, the seventeenth-century musicians continue their serenade undaunted, delicate fingers on the lute strings, unaware of the catastrophe looming above them. Their music is the echo of a lost harmony, a promise of beauty amid the white noise of modernity.
The lady in black watches, an enigmatic guardian between worlds, while the purple figure levitates in the void, a fragment of a digital dream. The metal pipes,cold, industrial, empty,lie like the bones of a dying civilization.
And the blue butterfly, trapped in its frame, remains a fragile certainty: beauty still exists, even if only as a reminder of what once breathed.
About the Artist
Vito Antonio Lerario is a multifaceted creative working across art, photography, fashion, theatre, and curation. After studying at the art high school, he specialises in fashion, tailoring, and pattern-making, going on to work as a fashion designer with publications in industry magazines.
A collector of vintage garments with an internationally recognised archive, in 2008 he co-founds with historian Luciano Lapadula the space 1900, active until 2015: a hybrid between a vintage boutique, atelier, and cultural laboratory. He collaborates with national and international institutions, including the University of Bari. In 2012 Louis Vuitton dedicates an article to his work; in 2014 Condé Nast publishes one of his capsule collections.
Since 2009 he has worked as a stylist and costume designer for theatre, film, and photography. In 2019 he directs and designs the set of the show "Moda sotto le bombe". Alongside this, he develops curatorial work for exhibitions and events.
Photography enters his practice in 2018. In 2025 he creates "Tempus Fugit", a project in four acts published as a limited-edition photobook of fifty copies, exploring women's inner time through sixteen portraits in which each change of clothing becomes a threshold between different identities. The photobook will be presented at Fanzineist Vienna.
His latest photographic project, "Archivio degli Inutili", aesthetically rehabilitates discarded objects through Polaroid, transforming them from functional relics into consecrated presences.
Since 2024 he has been teaching Fashion Illustration and Textile Design at Ideacademy and Sudformazione in Bari.
Currently, within his studio, he creates applied art across various disciplines.
His work has recently been published by Docu Magazine and Visual Art Journal; one of his pieces was projected on a Times Square billboard in New York City. He has recently exhibited his artworks in Turin at the "Portraits V Edition" organised by Con/temporary Spaces. His upcoming exhibitions include the "Small Favors Exhibition" at Kaye West Studios, Camp Hill, Brisbane, Australia, the "Collage Art Exhibition" hosted by the Kutubna Cultural Center in Dubai, and Fanzineist Vienna.
His interests include the history of costume, music , particularly new wave , cinema, and literature.
www.instagram.com/vitoantoniolerario
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Vito Antonio Lerario (Bari, Italy/Bari)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Digital collage on black Forex with Fuji print | Dimensions: 40x30 centimeters | Display: Wall-hung (2D) | Digital work
Artist Statement
In the vortex of disintegrating time, where centuries collapse upon themselves through layers of digital interference, a visual portal opens that defies all chronology. The skyscraper,a titanic monolith of concrete and ambition,stands like a totem of the modern era, its illuminated windows silent witnesses to thousands of parallel existences. Yet it trembles, fragments, dissolving under the weight of glitches that distort its very substance.
The vinyl glove,black, shiny, unsettling in its surgical precision,floats in space like the relic of an interrupted gesture, of a contact that never occurred or perhaps already consummated. An ambiguous symbol of protection or distance, of control or sterility, suspended between the mechanical present and the organic past.
At the foot of this temporal chaos, the seventeenth-century musicians continue their serenade undaunted, delicate fingers on the lute strings, unaware of the catastrophe looming above them. Their music is the echo of a lost harmony, a promise of beauty amid the white noise of modernity.
The lady in black watches, an enigmatic guardian between worlds, while the purple figure levitates in the void, a fragment of a digital dream. The metal pipes,cold, industrial, empty,lie like the bones of a dying civilization.
And the blue butterfly, trapped in its frame, remains a fragile certainty: beauty still exists, even if only as a reminder of what once breathed.
About the Artist
Vito Antonio Lerario is a multifaceted creative working across art, photography, fashion, theatre, and curation. After studying at the art high school, he specialises in fashion, tailoring, and pattern-making, going on to work as a fashion designer with publications in industry magazines.
A collector of vintage garments with an internationally recognised archive, in 2008 he co-founds with historian Luciano Lapadula the space 1900, active until 2015: a hybrid between a vintage boutique, atelier, and cultural laboratory. He collaborates with national and international institutions, including the University of Bari. In 2012 Louis Vuitton dedicates an article to his work; in 2014 Condé Nast publishes one of his capsule collections.
Since 2009 he has worked as a stylist and costume designer for theatre, film, and photography. In 2019 he directs and designs the set of the show "Moda sotto le bombe". Alongside this, he develops curatorial work for exhibitions and events.
Photography enters his practice in 2018. In 2025 he creates "Tempus Fugit", a project in four acts published as a limited-edition photobook of fifty copies, exploring women's inner time through sixteen portraits in which each change of clothing becomes a threshold between different identities. The photobook will be presented at Fanzineist Vienna.
His latest photographic project, "Archivio degli Inutili", aesthetically rehabilitates discarded objects through Polaroid, transforming them from functional relics into consecrated presences.
Since 2024 he has been teaching Fashion Illustration and Textile Design at Ideacademy and Sudformazione in Bari.
Currently, within his studio, he creates applied art across various disciplines.
His work has recently been published by Docu Magazine and Visual Art Journal; one of his pieces was projected on a Times Square billboard in New York City. He has recently exhibited his artworks in Turin at the "Portraits V Edition" organised by Con/temporary Spaces. His upcoming exhibitions include the "Small Favors Exhibition" at Kaye West Studios, Camp Hill, Brisbane, Australia, the "Collage Art Exhibition" hosted by the Kutubna Cultural Center in Dubai, and Fanzineist Vienna.
His interests include the history of costume, music , particularly new wave , cinema, and literature.
www.instagram.com/vitoantoniolerario
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.