Now, this finds are hanging on the walls, only just cleared
from the earth that has concealed them from the human sight, throughout
centuries. They seem like great modernity hearers and if deeply expressed,
they could disclose mankind evolution.It’s interesting to let them
suggest, in their rhythmical graphic composition, stories about Mediterranean
civilisation. This longed human familiarity with fishes becomes clear in
Sakana’s harmonic and essential shape, a black bronze obtained from a Carrara
marble sculpture.The materials, Nino Ventura skilfully matches, are the same
ones men used, from the very beginning, to hand down to posterity knowledge,
thought and images, showing artistry in the awareness of the surrounding
elements.The warmly red Castellamonte clay joins to bronze, wood, lava, sand,
pigments and enamels, giving sensations and telling us earliest times stories.The title Mediterraneo Terra Mia springs from the author’s
deep connection with ageographic area that has
always been cradle of civilisation, of cultural exchanges andcontamination. Nino Ventura has succeeded in elaborating an
universally intelligiblelanguage, with a synthesis of
meaningful languages that have marked out theMediterranean courses,
rnaking out the actual rich blend of different cultures.
Diego Bionda
Now, this finds are hanging on the walls, only just cleared
from the earth that has concealed them from the human sight, throughout
centuries. They seem like great modernity hearers and if deeply expressed,
they could disclose mankind evolution.It’s interesting to let them
suggest, in their rhythmical graphic composition, stories about Mediterranean
civilisation. This longed human familiarity with fishes becomes clear in
Sakana’s harmonic and essential shape, a black bronze obtained from a Carrara
marble sculpture.The materials, Nino Ventura skilfully matches, are the same
ones men used, from the very beginning, to hand down to posterity knowledge,
thought and images, showing artistry in the awareness of the surrounding
elements.The warmly red Castellamonte clay joins to bronze, wood, lava, sand,
pigments and enamels, giving sensations and telling us earliest times stories.The title Mediterraneo Terra Mia springs from the author’s
deep connection with ageographic area that has
always been cradle of civilisation, of cultural exchanges andcontamination. Nino Ventura has succeeded in elaborating an
universally intelligiblelanguage, with a synthesis of
meaningful languages that have marked out theMediterranean courses,
rnaking out the actual rich blend of different cultures.
Diego Bionda
San Gimignano
11/01/2003 - 15/02/2003
MEDITERRANEO TERRA MIA
