20 Marzo

Runografie

runografie

Runografie is a series of one-of-a-kind collage works that bring together runic writing and a contemporary visual language.
Each piece emerges through a process of symbolic attunement. Beginning with a personal reading—rooted in a name, an intention, or a question—the runes that will shape the composition gradually reveal themselves. Drawn in black, these signs interact with soft, archetypal forms—circles, arcs, crescents—and a restrained palette of pale yellow, terracotta, powder blue, and sage green set against a warm white ground.
The imagery that unfolds within each collage is closely connected to the visual universe ofThe Sign and the Wind – Intuitive Runic Oracle. Both bodies of work share the same symbolic language and stem from an ongoing meditation on the 24 archetypal runes.
Each collage is entirely handmade, using painted paper that is individually cut and assembled. The slow, deliberate act of cutting and layering becomes a kind of ritual gesture, where every chromatic decision and formal balance arises from an inner movement before an aesthetic one.
What emerges is a landscape of the inner self—not a literal representation of symbols, but a quiet, contemplative presence. Each work can be understood as an archetypal portrait, offering a space for reflection, memory, and transformation.
Every Runografia is signed and accompanied by a short text that traces the runes that surfaced and the symbolic relationships between them.

title

Runografia #1

Date

2025

medium

Collage on canvas

Hand-painted paper, acrylic, natural wood floater frame

Size

Cm 80×60

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28 Febbraio

Pneuma

pneuma

Pneuma reflects on the sacredness of the present moment, on the mystery of inner transformation, and on the soul’s capacity to evolve despite the fleeting nature of time.
The work suggests that even within impermanence there is an ongoing search for balance and meaning.
The hourglass, filled with white sage ash, becomes the symbol of a cycle that renews itself. The ash—subtle, fragile—evokes a life interrupted, yet not erased; a presence that continues in another form. Here, ash becomes the metaphor of an existence that did not have time to unfold completely, and yet leaves a deep imprint—like a breath that does not fade, but transforms.
The geometric base in satin aluminum, composed of interwoven triangles, represents a force that sustains without confining the essence of life as it flows.
Pneuma is an object that fits naturally within the hands, as if holding a small universe: time, memory, and ash contained within a transparent sphere—delicate, yet tangible.
A sacred time that can be touched and turned, not to measure it, but to contemplate it.
The poem accompanying the work becomes the guardian of that sacred silence, amplifying the intensity of the breath that moves through every moment, every gesture of transformation.

Pneuma

I touched time —
the one that runs,
the one that remains.

I breathed the silence,
the kind that settles where emptiness burns.

I felt the weightless weight of a soul,
its measure within nothingness.

And there,
where it seemed to end,
everything began.

I embraced it —
not to hold,
just to let it flow.

What is it that keeps the world together?
Perhaps
a breath.

title

Pneuma

Date

2025

medium

blown glass, ash, aluminum

Size

Cm 13x13x16

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27 Febbraio

the sign and the wind

the sign and the wind – runic oracle

The Sign and the Wind is a 24-card deck born from meditation on the archetypal language of the runes — from listening to their structure, their myth, their unfolding meaning.
Each card originates as a hand-cut collage and is later translated into digital form, preserving the essential tension of flat color, the gravity of a black mark on warm white, and a palette that feels intimate, almost suspended in time. The runes are not illustrated as stories. They are received as presences — thresholds of attention, elemental forms that whisper to the unconscious.
The accompanying guidebook moves through the 24 runes as passages in an inner crossing — preparing the path, entering the trial, returning altered. Each symbol opens through meanings, keywords, questions, and quiet ritual gestures, offering a space for meditation and personal work.
On the reverse of the cards rests a personal runic sigil composed of:

ᚨ Ansuz — inspiration, voice, sacred breath
ᚱ Raido — the journey, the moving path
ᛁ Isa — stillness, inner axis, lucid pause

The sigil is also printed on the natural fiber pouch that cradles the deck and guidebook — a sign of protection, of continuity, of silent alignment.
This triad holds the deeper rhythm of the project: to receive the message, to walk the journey, to dwell in stillness.
The Sign and the Wind is an invitation to listen.
An intuitive and contemporary deck where the mark becomes oracle, and the symbolic wind carries what longs to surface.

title

The sign and the wind

Date

2025

medium

CMYK print on laminated cardstock

24 cards, guidebook, natural fiber pouch

Size

Cm 15x20x3

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12 Febbraio

Boxed constellations

boxed constellations

Boxed Constellations are an intimate, portable evolution of a research project begun in 2010.
Where site-specific installations let the celestial vault expand into architectural space, here the sky is gathered, preserved, and compressed.
Each box holds a star map made of hundreds of matches: a fragile, possible sky contained within a finite space.
The gesture is no longer one of traversal, but of conservation.
One does not enter the sky; one observes it closely through a peephole, in a private, silent act that emphasizes secrecy and intimacy.
The box becomes both a microcosm and an optical device.
The constellations inside can be projected, “amplified,” giving the sky an expanded spatial dimension.
The viewer may choose to linger in this quiet contemplation or reconstruct their own celestial vault in the surrounding space.
Here, the work returns to its original form: a fragile architecture of matches mapping the sky in relation to a specific place and time.
It moves between compression and expansion, archive and apparition, potentiality and activation.
The match remains the minimal measure of fire and time: each star an unlit possibility, each constellation a precarious balance between existence and disappearance.
The sky is not presented as an absolute datum, but as a personal map, where the distance between the physical and the metaphysical collapses into direct experience.

title

Boxed constellations #1
N 40° 39’ 57.56’’
E 16° 36’ 16.67’’ 10.08.2017 21:00

Date

2026

medium

Frosted opaline plexiglass box, peephole, matches, perforated cardboard, star map printed on tracing paper

Size

Cm 14,5×14,5×11

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14 Novembre

Gloves Map

gloves map

This map gathers traces of contact between perfect strangers: each point marks a glove once lost by someone, and later found by someone else. It’s a terrestrial constellation — woven from invisible connections that appeared, in a certain place and moment, by pure chance.

You can explore the map by clicking on the glowing points to view photos and details of each collected glove. The map activates on first click and can also be viewed in full screen or reset to its initial view.
The complete archive of the gloves I have personally collected is available here: CON/TATTO (Touch/tact)
The archive of gloves contributed by others can be found here: GLOVES MAP – CONTRIBUTORS

If you’ve come across a glove on the street, you can contribute by uploading its image and sharing where you found it.
Your gesture will become part of this collective map. Gloves are incorporated into the project through its visual language and formal framework.

CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW THE MAP TO JOIN IN

Con/tatto

Share your glove

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6 Novembre

Echoing Silences

Echoing silences

Echoing Silences is a votive sculpture activated by the artist during a live performance. Celtic symbols carved into the surface of twenty-four river stones allow the runes to whisper the breath of time, tracing invisible paths toward skies not yet seen. Each symbol becomes a passage — a threshold between here and elsewhere, between what can be spoken and what remains unsayable.
During the performance, participants are invited to choose one of the twenty-four runes. They are then blindfolded and guided through words and subtle suggestions to draw whatever emerges from the unconscious.This temporary blindness interrupts control, opening a suspended space between waking consciousness and dream, where symbols and archetypes can surface freely. Every gesture becomes ritual; every line a trace of inner energy.
The drawings are later transformed by the artist into runic amulets, reproduced on slate and returned to the participants as talismans. In this way, the body and the surrounding space become a poetic device, capable of activating the invisible within the creative act.
Echoing Silences è un’opera che raccoglie l’eco del silenzio e lo riconsegna a chi sa decifrarlo. Echoing Silences gathers the echo of silence and returns it to those who know how to hear it. Rather than imposing creation, the artist enters a space of listening.
Echoing Silences was first presented at SCONFINA, as part of the project Altri Cieli, during the Milano Art Week 2025.[LEARN MORE >>]

title

Echoing Silences

Date

2025

medium

engraved river stones, enamel, wooden support, charcoal on paper, slate, acrylic paint

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11 Maggio

Faraway (so close)

faraway (so close)

The installation has a bare, essential form, reminiscent of the industrial world.
It consists of an iron table on which two motorized pulleys and a chain are mounted.
A blade of paper runs over the pulleys, while several cylindrical supports are fixed to the chain to hold flowers upright.
The chain moves slowly and inexorably toward the paper blade, leading each flower, one after the other, to be decapitated—thus undergoing an inevitable homogenization.
At the entrance to the exhibition, each visitor is given a cut flower, and is invited to interact with the installation, thereby taking part in the creative-destructive process.
The work invites the viewer to observe the tension between order and disintegration, and to become part of a relentless yet aesthetically poetic dynamic, prompting reflection on control and inevitability, on both physical and emotional separation.

title

Faraway (so close)

Date

2021

medium

aluminum table, electric engines, paper blade, flowers

Size

cm 200X120X90

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11 Maggio

#WideOpenYourself

#WideOpenYourself, conceived for La città intorno, the major urban regeneration project of the Adriano district in Milan (2017), aims to reclaim public space and reconnect with the history of places through the creation of pathways, observation points, and play stations.
The urban space was scattered with famous quotes from writers, philosophers, and artists. Additionally, in specific areas of the neighborhood, actual playgrounds were drawn directly onto the ground.
Each intervention used road paint and a photocatalytic finishing capable of neutralizing and transforming polluting and toxic agents into harmless substances.
An audio map was also created, allowing visitors to listen to the quotes read by actress Antonella Ruggiero.
The use of the hashtag will allow the project to continue evolving online, creating a bridge between the physical and virtual realms, between the artwork and its audience.
The “player-visitor” can document their interaction with the installation, but also suggest new routes, perspectives, and actions.
#WideOpenYourself functions as an open device that invites the viewer to explore an intimate dimension of the self through a collective and, at the same time, personal experience—encouraging participation in the making of a fluid and ever-changing work.

THE ROUTE

Some particularly meaningful locations were selected to form the stages of an ideal path for (re)discovering the neighborhood, its origins, play, and relationships:

– Piazza Costantino, the site of the former Crescenzago town hall, marking the beginning of the Adriano district, which extends northward along the street of the same name

– The abandoned area of the former Magneti-Marelli factory, at Via Adriano 60

– The water basin along Via Privata Vipiteno

– The former air-raid shelter, now incorporated into the commercial area

– The green area at the corner of Via Tremelloni and Via Tognazzi

title

#WideOpenYourself

Date

2017

medium

road painting, photocatalytic finishing

Size

Variable dimensions

audiomap

PIAZZA COSTANTINO

VIA ADRIANO 60

VIA PRIVATA VIPITENO

VIA TREMELLONI

credit: Antonella Ruggiero

via tremelloni angolo via tognazzi

gaming stations

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11 Maggio

Encountering the stranger

encountering the stranger

Encountering the Stranger is the result of a performance that took place during the fourteenth edition of Cenaconme. [learn more] The inspirational quote chosen for the evening stated: “Public space is a place where you meet the other—if you want it to happen”. I chose to interpret this quotation by “collecting” the handshakes of strangers who decided to engage with me: each of them dipped their hand in paint and then left their print on the white glove I was wearing.
In return, I offered each participant a “small piece of myself”: a card containing a sentence about something I love and something I hate, along with the imprint of my lips. [see the artwork amo/detesto]
Encountering the Stranger thus explores the theme of otherness, the confrontation with the unknown, and the possibility of building relationships through symbolic gestures.
The project invites the viewer to reflect on what it means to be open to difference—both physically and emotionally.
This work encourages direct involvement, offering an experience that is not only observational but also transformative.
Each encounter becomes a unique and unrepeatable event, much like the very concept of the “stranger,” which opens a space for meeting and reflection.

title

Encountering the stranger

Date

13 luglio 2017

medium

Cotton gloves, non-toxic paint

Size

Variable dimensions

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11 Maggio

Amo / Detesto

amo / detesto

Amo / Detesto consists of 110 cards signed with the imprint of my lips, each revealing something I love or something I hate.
During the performance Encountering the Stranger, each person who chose to engage with me received one of these unique pieces, thus transforming the work into a “distributed” artwork. [see detail Encountering the Stranger]

title

Amo / Detesto

Date

2017

medium

Ink and lipstick on paper

Size

Edition of 110 copies

14.8 x 10.5 cm each

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