Per filo e per segno

Polvere d’Arte Association is pleased to present Per Filo e Per Segno, an exhibition by the Venetian artist Giovanni Pinosio.

The artist shares “Per filo e per segno,” the journey of his artistic research, which began during his students' years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. It was here, ten years ago, in the Sculpture course, that Pinosio discovered the metal wire, a material able to combine strength and delicacy, and making it the beating heart of his artistic practice.

At first used as a structural support for his first clay sculptures, over time the metal wire has transformed into the absolute protagonist of his art: a three-dimensional line that brings bodies, faces, objects, and animals to life. These are not merely sculptures, but true “three-dimensional drawings” that vibrate in space, engage in dialogue with emptiness, and create subtle harmonies.

Pinosio’s artistic journey begins with an intimate reflection: “What's voice? How can I translate into sculpture the sensations I experience while singing?”
From these initial questions, a thread unravels and explores concepts such as lightness, essentiality, fullness and emptiness, air. For Pinosio, the artistic gesture becomes a continuous process of removal, of taking away, until he reaches the essence of things.

The wire transforms into a living line that, unfolding in three-dimensional space, turns drawings on paper into real forms: figures that seem to emerge from an inner, almost metaphysical world, yet evoke collective memories and universal symbols.

Sign and iron wire intertwine in a ceaseless dialogue. The sculptures, born from preparatory marks, cast shadows that turn into new tracks and drawings, thus fueling a cyclical and ever-inspiring creative process.