No-body is empty

The Sinopia Gallery in Rome will be hosting the exhibition “No-Body is Empty”, curated by Raffaella Lupi in collaboration with the writer Riccardo Benedini, as part of the Rome Art Week 2022. The exhibition will feature Giovanni Pinosio’s “The Anatomy of Lightness”, marking its debut in the capital. The young artist from Veneto had his works displayed on Via dei Banchi Nuovi, which is a historic hub for multidisciplinary dialogue located in the heart of Rome.
The installations, made from simple wire material, transformed into art objects that resembled transparent bodies, free from superstructures and ethereal non-sculptures.

Pinosio marks a new era in contemporary Venetian art as he challenges the true weight of our inner selves and the language of emptiness. “No-Body is Empty” is an original installation featuring a scale that measures the weight of an iron skein used by the sculptor to create a representation of the internal space of the human body. He explores the relationship between matter and space and how they interact with each other.
The project stems from the artist’s experience with his voice and body. By freeing the voice, the artist is able to experience the lightness of the body. The voice loses its anchoring points, and once the tensions that can block it are overcome, it frees itself. Pinosio feels disoriented as he experiences the sensation of falling and the loss of gravity, which raises a fundamental question for him: “Am I empty or just light?”.

The artist, having lost some of his weight, is now contemplating if the feeling of lightness he is experiencing can be quantified. Even if such a unit of measurement existed, he wonders if the sensation of physical emptiness could lead him to discover a metaphysical and interior void. Hence, the scale, an instrument that measures weight and anchors us to the ground, can also prompt us to ask ourselves, “Should I lighten up?” Pinosio’s sculptures address this question by suggesting that we are not inherently empty, but we all experience emptiness in our own way through our bodies. Nobody is empty but…. no…. body is empty.

Not only exhibition at the Sinopia Gallery: to accompany "No-Body is Empty," a short film born from the artist's collaboration with Riccardo Benedini will be screened as an absolute premiere. Writer Riccardo Benedini, inspired by the artist's investigation of the concept of lightness, in fact published a short story titled "Il Forte Leggero" and later turned it into an emotional short film. Pinosio thus becomes the protagonist of a narrative led by his own works that, like vibrant sounding boards, lead the audience to the discovery of his own fragilities, to transform them into creative and revolutionary strength.