Visual poetry, photography, installations, video art

Curator: Lorenzo Canova

The exhibition Cosmogonia is an amazing sensorial dialogue between works by Daniela Monaci and Sonia Gentili’s poems shaped as visual installations by the art collective The man who does not look (Sonia Gentili e Ambrogio Palmisano).

Natural elements in motions, forms emerging e metamorphosing in a constant dialectic between fluid and crystalized, time and timelessness, are images of the life cycle – the cosmic and the human one.

Daniela Monaci’s art explores the shapes appearing and metamorphosing by searching the harmonic weft underlying the epiphany of the world.

She uses an extraordinary wide variety of instruments: from photography to clay installations, from mixed technique on wood to video art.

Sonia Gentili turns into poetry the motion and the rhythm trough which a World, an Artwork, a Creature comes to light, changes crossing the time and finally returns to fade in the dark. These are the four movements of her last collection of poems I quattro gesti della creazione (Aragno 2020).

The art collective The man who does not look transforms Sonia Gentili’s poems into visual installations where texts are in becoming toward their own form: words emerge progressively on the sheet and «happen» in front of the reader-spectator.

Sonia Gentili is a professor (Rome University La Sapienza), a poet and writer (Viareggio prize, Pisa Prize, Novaro- Accademia dei Lincei Prize). She lives and works between Rome and Paris.

Daniela Monaci is a visual artist. Since 1994 her works are exhibited in art galleries and institutional headquarters, in Italy and abroad. She lives and works in Rome www.danielamonaci.com

Ambrogio Palmisano is a film-maker and a video-maker living and working in Bari. With Sonia Gentili he made up the art collective The man who does not look www.luomochenonquarda.com