Franco Nicolosi/Sculpture is an immaterial body

by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

Riflessioni di Superficie, 2002

The works of the artist Franco Nicolosi come from a deep intimate reflection. A sort of continuous sensorial interconnection where matter translates into an unexpected creative process, albeit meditative. An experiential practice, characterized by forms with unmistakable, sinuous and rhythmic traits. Forms that seem suspended between past and present, but that open to a constant and lasting dialogue. Here then are vases and drawings made with different materials, including clay, graphite, wood or ceramic. And, although each work follows a different specific path, they all eventually intertwine again, triggering reflections on concepts such as duplicity, symbolism, awareness and transformation. Read more

Daniela Daz Moretti/Art on the border between nostalgia and new identities

by Carole Dazzi and Romina Ciulli

Liminale

Daniela Daz Moretti, sculptor, painter, is a multifaceted artist whose works shape a personal existential journey, making her deepest and most intimate side manifest. Above all, it is through the modeling of ceramics, her medium of choice, that Daz accompanies us along this growth path, crossing themes such as childhood and adulthood, the existential meaning of memory, the allegorical border between inner world and external reality. Read more

Photography and matter: the visual imagery of Darren Harvey-Regan

by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

In materia, 2023

The work of the English artist Darren Harvey-Regan returns a photographic imagery in which the simplicity of the material underlies a complexity of meaning and vice versa. In fact, his works create a connection between the represented subject, the photographic representation of the object and the exhibited photograph itself. This relationship generates an aesthetic tension that takes possession of photography and sculpture to deepen the themes of his artistic research. Read more