1+1=3 ELEMENTI DI BIOMIMICA

Roberto Giacomucci

“Everything originates from a careful selection of works by Giacomucci, already known for his sensitive creativity as a designer. This selection grants us the cultural opportunity to imagine an exhibition path with both aesthetic and conceptual implications, reinforced by a unique—indeed, singular—technique of execution. This technique stems in part from his knowledge of and familiarity with industrial materials and processes. The works are created on special translucent paper, painted with oil pastels and solvents, then treated with hot air and water; some are laminated with polyurethane films. But to us, they are ancient marbles, frames of a furrowed sea, stones tossed into a pond, fields reworked and rolled; they are games of mosses and lichens on stone, wind rippling the usual course of the river, an abyssal glance, a forest path after rainfall, scattered ashes from a spent fire, an algae field after a storm surge, a drone snapshot of a forest in autumn or summer.
These are chromatically evocative diptychs in dialogue with one another, prompting each viewer’s emotions to concentrate as they experience them within a visual layout of space that captivates through its variety and visual potential. These are aniconic dimensions in which the gaze can question the perception of both a true presence and what is concealed by the work’s reality. In this way, Nature—through the filter of Man, the Artist—can rediscover its image via a humanized act, a “deception” that reveals the polyvalence of matter when it meets creative feeling and poetic vision. This is Roberto Giacomucci’s “biomimicry,” an “imitation” of nature through the human lens that becomes a tuning of life to frequencies of balance rich in beauty.
The works—these “elements of biomimicry”—thus give rise to the concept underlying the exhibition: 1+1=3. It is the sum of the diptychs on display, as well as the visual relationship between viewer and artwork, that creates a synergy between two elements capable of producing a result greater than the mere sum of its parts. A result we all seek, in order to find an answer—and perhaps a face—for the mysterious force that moves us from within.”

Giorgio D’Orazio