ELEUSA
Eleusa stages the short-circuit between the sacred and the profane. The upper section is dominated by the ineffable certainty of dogma, depicted according to the stylistic elements of Orthodox iconography codified by Pavel Florensky: a Virgin Hodegetria with a steadfast gaze points to her Son as the Way. Below, the earthly dimension turns fragile: a […]
Nativity: the True Man Show
The commodification of modern-day Christmas is represented by a ‘social media’ family intent on taking a selfie, surrounded by symbols of a consumerist holiday that celebrates itself. The believer must search for the “True Man” beyond appearances, between birth and resurrection. In the upper register, figures from Venice’s ancient history and symbology appear distorted by […]
MIDWAY
The work presents itself as a complex iconographic palimpsest, where the millenary Venetian technique of sgraffito on precious metals is reinterpreted in a contemporary key. The background, dominated by the brilliance of pure gold and white gold, serves as a metaphysical space where classical archetypes, Dantean symbolism, and historical memories converge. The Dantean Core and […]
AVATAR – RATAVA
Art reverses the course of digital alienation: the graphic symbol (like emojis), used today to replace flesh and blood, returns to its original source. Picasso’s Guernica, the ultimate icon of 20th-century city bombings, rewinds the tape in AVATAR-RATAVA through an artistic regression from mouth to source. In a hyper-digitalized world, Marco Toso Borella’s work aims […]
SHAH MAT
Shah Mat (Checkmate), the move that decrees victory in chess, becomes here an allegory of the Murano microcosm and of all humanity. The work is structured as a chessboard of a thousand illusory viewpoints, where every pawn is convinced it is in the right, and the loser is left with no escape. Mirrored fragments capture […]
BABEL (Don Quixote)
In Babel, Murano glass becomes a “philosophical canvas” upon which the author incises a ruthless X-ray of the 21st century. A bicycle-riding Don Quixote, armed only with the shield of identity and shouting the famous Fantozzian invective in Latin, challenges social media alienation and the “fake.” The tower-windmill is the monster of our history: from […]