There is something stubborn about the way wire takes shape. A composite, repetitive production – as if to seek out, revive a hazy obsession through the repetition of images. The lines traced by wire cut through space with precision; like the thread that the Fates, aloof and exact, spin in the shadows. Every curve, every tension, every knot is a silent presence that resonates in the mind of the viewer, in the air split and crossed by the wire, unrecognisable and familiar at the same time – like destiny, which repeats itself in different forms but is always recognisable to those who pause long enough to notice.
Among layers of silence, in the Portogruaro Museum, Giovanni Pinosio’s wire sculptures mingle with the memory of ancient stones, tracing a suspended map of bodies, signs and visions.
"In the young contemporary Italian sculpture scene Giovanni Pinosio emerges as an artist capable of weaving together a personal, fluid, poetic language. “Alchimie Marine” marks the culmination of a creative journey in which Pinosio brings together gesture, matter, and thought in a single, vibrant whole."
Pinosio’s artistic journey begins with an intimate reflection: “What's voice? How can I translate into sculpture the sensations I experience while singing?” From these initial questions, a thread unravels and explores concepts such as lightness, essentiality, fullness and emptiness, air.
Lo scultore ha ascoltato le ombre dei suoi disegni, interrogato le sottilissime teste di elefante ed è andato altrove, portando con sé tutta la meraviglia e la forza interiore della sua leggerezza.
For Pinosio, Anatomy refers to the art of observation and self-awareness. Similarly, when we anatomise a garden, we delve into the essence of nature and connect with the beauty that surrounds us, merging with the natural world.
“These works represent lovers, contemplatives caught in their emotional expressions. Expressions such as love which, like the sea and the wind, if it calms us today, supports us and elevates us, tomorrow will be able, in a single instant, to disturb and divide us”.
No one is empty. However, we can experience emptiness with our own empty bodies. Nobody is empty but…no…body is empty.
I usually define Giovanni Pinosio’s way of sculpting by using a paradox: baroque minimalism. Pinosio’s baroque is the sum of minimal, overlaid lines developing the discourse of the body in time and space.
Blending two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional sculptures in an original way, Giovanni Pinosio tackles complex elements such as the void and the immaterial.
There is something stubborn about the way wire takes shape. A composite, repetitive production – as if to seek out, revive a hazy obsession through the repetition of images.
Among layers of silence, in the Portogruaro Museum, Giovanni Pinosio’s wire sculptures mingle with the memory of ancient stones, tracing a suspended map of bodies, signs and visions.
In the young contemporary Italian sculpture scene Giovanni Pinosio emerges as an artist capable of weaving together a personal, fluid, poetic language. “Alchimie Marine” marks the culmination of a creative journey in which Pinosio brings together gesture, matter, and thought in a single, vibrant whole.
Pinosio’s artistic journey begins with an intimate reflection: “What's voice? How can I translate into sculpture the sensations I experience while singing?”
From these initial questions, a thread unravels and explores concepts such as lightness, essentiality, fullness and emptiness, air.