Talamo
Talamo is a modular installation, a wooden structure measuring approximately 118 x 49 inches, coated with pigmented concrete. The project originated from a transcription error I made in a notebook, while copying a passage from Gargantua about the Abbey of Thélème—an ideal architecture built without walls, where the motto is: Do what thou wilt. I […]
Qubbah
Qubbah is a site-specific project designed for the space of Masseria Cultura, in the Valle d’Itria. During a residence work, it has been brought to reality inside a seventeenth century construction made of dry stone. The typical, local, dry stone huts, trulli – in the shape of a square, topped by a keystone vault, under […]
Trapasso Tropicale
To visit a city one knows well can resemble a Via Crucis, not because it is painful, but because one retraces set stages as in a ritual. In Rome, I cannot miss Pietro da Cortona’s The Triumph of Divine Providence at Palazzo Barberini. Whenever I pass through Rome, I return to lose myself beneath that […]
Italian Villages project
There is nearly nothing nearby Sambuca di Sicilia. Located 89 km from Agrigento and 78 km south from Palermo, it barely counts 6000 people. It is considered one of the most beautiful small villages of Italy and now there is a reason more to go there. The 26 year old artist Edoardo Piermattei has been […]
Porziuncola
Though appreciating the habit of domesticating art to the point of being able to bear it in our hands before hanging it on our homes, the true nature of art invades and pervades the walls, from the ceiling to the floor. Painting hasn’t only played the part of architecture’s skin as the lining of the […]
Cremisaria
At first glance, as may have happened to some of the earliest and less attentive Venetian merchants, they appear to be red berries. They are, instead, precious insects clustered together: cochineal insects, from which the crimson pigment is extracted − the colour of the Venetian gonfalon. Cremisaria is a site-specific work conceived for the main […]