The exhibition presents a selection of works spanning the visual exploration of Gianni Gianasso, an artist who, over the years, has developed a highly symbolic and conceptual pictorial language capable of weaving together dreamlike dimensions, ethical reflection and contemporary visual culture.
The exhibition will feature Sognaletica, which has now become a distinctive feature of the artist’s poetics. Launched in 2012, this project began as a free and experimental variation on Gianasso’s pictorial work, but over time has evolved into a fully-fledged visual system through which the artist explores the relationship between image, symbol and reality. The term Sognaletica encompasses multiple levels of meaning: the dream, a central element of the artist’s imagination; the sign, understood as a pictorial and symbolic construction; and an ethical dimension that runs through Gianasso’s work, guiding the viewer towards a more conscious interpretation of everyday life.
Through a cultured and refined pictorial language, the artist engages with reality without reducing it to the simple dimension of reportage, but by transforming it into a symbolic and imaginative territory.
A subtle ironic and critical element also emerges in Gianasso’s work: the artist uses the language of public visual communication to insert messages that question human behaviour, social rules and the role of art in the contemporary world.