Andrew Iacobucci: da dove sto chiamando

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “da dove sto chiamando”, Italian artist Andrew Iacobucci’s first solo show in Asia supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. In these works, the exploration delves around the limits and struggles of language. When thoughts need to be translated into something to be communicated and understood, they have to shed some of their ambiguity and the most liminal aspects of meaning.

Language is a code: to be understood it has to be shareable, cleared from every kind of personal experience and limits in one’s communication skills. This inevitably leads to a loss, or at least a simplification, a process that we learn at school by gradually exploring language and its rules, grammar and logic. Children make their first attempts at communication mostly through scribbles and drawings. All of these scribbles hold meaning, now impossible to understand, hidden behind those apparently chaotic forms. Those drawings are a form of language before the process of codification and thus, more connected with the full range of perception and expression. A form of language that is formless, susceptible to the deepest thoughts and instinct, wildly more spontaneous. While we usually just scrap those scribbled papers, here they are selected, retraced using specific vectorial software, composed, and redrawn to become forms to explore, finally stretched and embroidered by industrial sewing machines on large fabrics in bright colours. Echoing tapestries or flags, humble scribbles become precious testimony of a language unknown.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Andrew Iacobucci (b. Rome, 1986) reflects on the limits and possibilities of signs. During his architecture degree, he travelled to China for cultural exchange, an where he came into contact with the oriental sign. His work crosses paths with fashion (where texture and gradation of fabric are pictorial elements), semiotics (in a reinterpretation of codes stripped of a scientific purpose) and architecture. In this series of works the graphemes of children not yet literate were converted into digital files, then re-edited on canvas with industrial embroidery. Not simply painting but selection and post-production. In general, the artist explores language in its attempts and failures.