Giacomo
Spinelli

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At the origin of the works there is the will to tell through an expressive language, between the abstract and the figurative, the geography of elusive images and enigmatic writings composed of numbers, images, ideograms and lines.

The information contained on the outer surface of the cardboard boxes is at the centre of those projects.

The poetry of simple images is accompanied by the uniqueness of a language made up of words and numbers useful for designating in space the path for transport from a hypothetical place of production to one of distribution.

The works breaks this entropic descent of information, through a work of transposition, deconstruction and re-elaboration of symbols and images: new signifiers and new meanings emerge in that metaphysical space which is the canvas.

Through a long process of working the cardboard itself, the artist managed to impress the images without having to reproduce them, but physically transferring the original ink from the paper support to the canvas one.

A transposition and not a reproduction: using original colors and formats, the identities stratified over time have continued to transmit information.

In its entirety the work thus becomes a map made of broken figures, ideograms and lines that overlap without solution of continuity.

Education

2015 - B.A in Modern and Contemporary History (La Sapienza, Rome, IT)

2017 - M.Sc. Sociology: migration and ethnic studies (University of Amsterdam, NL)

Painting

2019 - Signum Conclusum, Solo exhibition, Mobius (Rome, IT)

2019 - Beyond Directions, Solo exhibition, curated by Giulia Giambrone, Spazio Norbert Salenbauch(Venice, IT)

2021 - Apertura, Solo exhibition, Fondazione Besso(Roma, IT)

2022/23 - 18 Stanze, Group exhibition, Fondazione Artepassando (Milan, IT)

Cinema

Ongoing - Asiatica Film Festival, Programming and Management (Rome, IT)

2019 - Flowers of Taiwan, Scientific Research, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts(Rome, IT)

2019 - Indonesian Cinema Days, Programming, Cinema Farnese (Roma, IT)

2020 - Flowers of Taiwan II, Scientific Research, Cinema Farnese (Rome, IT)

2021 - Flowers of Taiwan III, Curator, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts(Rome, IT)