GESTO E SEGNO

“Gesto e Segno” takes the form of a visual manifesto that explores the artistic gesture and mark in various registers: physical, political, playful, poetic and aesthetic. In this dialectic, the exhibition explores the psychological and dynamic expression of the body through actions that are at times emphatic, at other times minimal and part of the everyday, and occasionally charged with a deep sense of political tension and revolt.

Despite their apparent semantic proximity, gesture and mark reveal fundamentally different natures and functions: gestures are spontaneous and uncoded acts, rooted in corporeality and emotion. They can accompany or even replace verbal language. Marks, by contrast, are mostly conventional and codified elements with recognisable meanings within systems. Yet marks, too, can appear ungrounded — as a pure presence, as an act that simply is — much like poetic language, which strives to speak the unspeakable, to signify beyond signification itself.