Collection of luminous sculptures in marble, metal structure, and LED Dimensions variable Presented at Galeria Carte Scoperte, Milan, 2019 Exhibited... Read More
Collection of luminous
sculptures in marble, metal structure, and LED
Dimensions variable
Presented at Galeria Carte Scoperte,
Milan, 2019
Exhibited at Mint Gallery,
London, 2019
Italic is a collection of luminous sculptures born
from the radical deconstruction of the alphabet. Gustavo Martini begins with
the canonical forms of letters and disassembles them until they are no longer
legible—liberated from language, they become autonomous shapes, symbols, and
sculptural subjects.
Referencing Ancient Rome—when
letters were laboriously carved into marble, their elegance defined by the
chisel’s final cut—Martini inverts the tradition. Instead of removing material
to reveal words, he constructs the letters themselves as objects, giving
physical presence to what was once defined by absence.
Highly graphic and
meticulously composed, Italic proposes a new typology—where structure
becomes language, and serif-like gestures evoke the history of writing without
needing to be read. Martini invites viewers to step outside conventional codes
and encounter the architecture of meaning in its most abstract, essential form.