Biocities and Still-Life Geometries draw their inspiration from the abstract art of Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Mark Rothko and Peter Halley, from the photography of Franco Fontana and Lucien Hervé an, occasionally, even from the metaphysical visions of Giorgio de Chirico. Vibrations and Surreal Landscapes, on the other hand, involve a search for images of informal or surrealist abstraction. Here the artist’s lens focuses on glass walls and metal plates that reflect and distort the architecture around them to generate unpredictable patterns made of shapes, lights and colours, seeking its deeper inspiration also from the Futurism of Balla, Boccioni, Carrà and Severini and, above all, from the visionary teachings of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudì.
Large-format works by Carlo D’Orta are on display in such major institutions as the Bank of Italy’s Conference Centre in Rome, the headquarters of the Bar Association in Milan’s central law court, the Chamber of Deputies, the Communications Ombudsman’s office, the Central State Archive Museum, the EUR S.p.A. and LUISS University in Rome, the Italian Consulate General in New York, the Italian Cultural Institutes in New York and Munich, the Order of Architects’ headquarters in Stuttgart, the Regional Council in Campania and numerous private collections both in Italy and abroad.