A F: Cosmos, in terms of order and rationality, always arises from a chaotic background. Apparently, the concepts of Chaos and Order describe two opposite circumstances. As a matter of fact, in the ancient mythology Chaos is the embodiment of the original state of emptiness, darkness, prior to creation. Historical texts, including Kircher’s ones, allowed me to develop a personal concept of dissolution and creation, in relation with the elements and bodies inhabiting the hearth, among which metals and stones, plants and animals. My “action” is an incessant experimentation, where the material is the focus of a continuous research of feasible possibilities; I achieve altitude through destruction, I erase and create. The corpus of works rivive from its ashes like a phenix. The idea of experimentation, destruction and creation has a key role in Hermetica Hesperimenta (term borrowed from Kircher). The exhibition shows how the actual forms are turned into “transition” experiments leading to other forms. It’s the missing element in the compulsive research on the materials properties. Simultaneously in Dominium Melancholiae, I build lead landscapes starting from zinc, thanks to reagents and medieval “alchemical formulas”. The result is an eternally changing chemical vegetation that produces forms starting from the creative stasis and from the melancholy sloth described by Dürer and Panofsky. I’m interested in the new myths descending from my own Mediterranean culture, in the symbols that lost their meanings, in the technical and scientific knowledge, in the entropy of the materials. I believe that Chaos and Order are fundamental elements to fall into the unknown. Human beings and nature are like “mirrors” of the divine projecting in the sky what is inside the mankind and the nature; symbols and myths are born this way.

A F: Cosmos, in terms of order and rationality, always arises from a chaotic background. Apparently, the concepts of Chaos and Order describe two opposite circumstances. As a matter of fact, in the ancient mythology Chaos is the embodiment of the original state of emptiness, darkness, prior to creation. Historical texts, including Kircher’s ones, allowed me to develop a personal concept of dissolution and creation, in relation with the elements and bodies inhabiting the hearth, among which metals and stones, plants and animals. My “action” is an incessant experimentation, where the material is the focus of a continuous research of feasible possibilities; I achieve altitude through destruction, I erase and create. The corpus of works rivive from its ashes like a phenix. The idea of experimentation, destruction and creation has a key role in Hermetica Hesperimenta (term borrowed from Kircher). The exhibition shows how the actual forms are turned into “transition” experiments leading to other forms. It’s the missing element in the compulsive research on the materials properties. Simultaneously in Dominium Melancholiae, I build lead landscapes starting from zinc, thanks to reagents and medieval “alchemical formulas”. The result is an eternally changing chemical vegetation that produces forms starting from the creative stasis and from the melancholy sloth described by Dürer and Panofsky. I’m interested in the new myths descending from my own Mediterranean culture, in the symbols that lost their meanings, in the technical and scientific knowledge, in the entropy of the materials. I believe that Chaos and Order are fundamental elements to fall into the unknown. Human beings and nature are like “mirrors” of the divine projecting in the sky what is inside the mankind and the nature; symbols and myths are born this way.