il linguaggio segreto di un gesto

The Secret Language of Gesture

installation and video

In collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Lazio and Southern Etruria and
X Day of Contemporary AMACI Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums

2 - 6 May, 2017 | Eugene, Oregon, USA | TAC - The Archeology Channel | International Film and Video Festival

2015 | Rovereto (Tn) | XXVI International Review of Archaeological Cinema

1 - 30 August, 2015 | Gallipoli (Le) | Castello Angioino - Former Covered Market

January 18 - February 1, 2015 | Cerveteri (Rm) | Sala Ruspoli - Banditaccia Necropolis - Cerite National Museum

10 - 19 October, 2014 | Rome | National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia

The project, born from the visual analysis of the Etruscan "Sarcophagus of the Spouses", in collaboration with SBAEM Superintendency of Archeological Heritage Southern Etruria, presented for the first time at the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome during the 10th AMACI Contemporary Day, consists of five large works, digital reworkings of photography, drawing and computer graphics, reproduced on the diaphanous material of a veil.

Complete the installation a video.

The gesture of the two spouses is for me the main source of inspiration which sees, in the gesture of their hands, a secret language, encrypted and buried for centuries in which, through a historical, ethical and social analysis, a bridge can be recognized between eras and cultures narrated through hermetic symbols.

A gesture that speaks of the mutual love of the two spouses, and of the profound respect and consideration enjoyed by women in Etruscan society, in stark contrast to what happens today.

A gesture that, under the apparent act of pouring perfumed ointments, hides the symbolic gesture of the oriental dance Natya, a Mudra.

In particular, three Indian mudras are reproduced exactly in the position of the hands of the two spouses and identifiable in some Hindu deities whose analysis and interpretation accompanies the viewer on an unusual and fascinating journey.

"Ancient gestures that distort and translate themselves into contemporary acts of absolute madness, conceal the secret discomfort of a groom who finds, in the annihilation of his half of life, the only way out, the only possible way of liberation, the only form of recognition and affirmation of his being Man.

On the other hand, the Woman, who has thrown her Essence of Woman into oblivion and pays for her being Vital Energy, Queen of that daily home that becomes the burden and constraint for that Man, now without innate certainty.

Both have lost communion with the other, turning into two incommunicable portions that now travel on parallel roads. "