‘Attraverso Il Nero’
Attraverso Il Nero (Through the Black) is a project that brings into dialogue two seemingly opposing aspects of gesture: restrained force and unleashed force.
On one side, a series of black canvases, worked to the brink of transparency, where the material is consumed, opened, allowing light to filter through from behind as a revealing presence. On the other, drawings on paper crossed by fluorescent orange marks—instinctive, sharp gestures that act as visual detonations.
The canvases are not absences: they are silent surfaces, charged with presence. Their darkness is not a closure, but a tension in potential. The white marks that emerge in the dark, along with the transparent lacerations, reveal an identity that is not shouted, but carved. The light that seeps in becomes part of the language—a breath that shapes, redefines, transforms.
The absence of color becomes a symbolic choice: it is a space for listening, where time settles and every trace gains meaning.
In stark contrast, the drawings represent the explosive side of gesture. Energy manifests as tension released into space, in an unstable balance between control and surrender, where concentration implodes into rage, vitality, urgency.
Between these two poles—black and light, absorption and detonation—a single visual grammar is constructed.
The recurring Xs on the canvases mark a point, take a stand.
But they are also signs of negation: not decorative, not pacified, but oppositional.
They are “NOs” etched into space, declarations of dissent, refusal, and dignity—a silent yet unshakable stance, in contrast to what happens outside, against all forms of resignation or numbness.
Gesture, in all its forms, is central—not as an aesthetic effect, but as an existential affirmation, as a body that acts, carves, and leaves a trace.
