La vigna

or Energetic study of the present state of all the living, of the natural, political and moral worlds, with new observations, and corrections, by ancient and contemporary travelers, distilled from the privileged lookout point of the Vigna di San Martino;

or A note to the bellboy of the Forza Napoli bar understood as a spontaneous example of luminous grace;

or Only when you lose your gold you can give accurate advice on time travel;

or Thoughts on the balkanization of human fantasy and its redemption through the sacred use of dancing existence as art;

or The way in which the way Tsang Chieh dressed up with oak leaves determined the shape of certain characters and their mutations through time.

Introduction to the body of works, by the artist.

The pieces chosen for Iacopo Seri’s exhibition at Salvator Rosa document the ongoing process in which the artist’s research about the reality of existence takes shape during – and thanks to – the ordinary activities of living in the Vigna di San Martino. This is a 7.5 hectares piece of land in the middle of the city of Naples, that has been preserved from being eaten by urban culture and has remained almost unchanged for at least four or five centuries. Here, Iacopo Seri analyzes in an intuitive and non-systematic process the interrelations of language and things, particularly focusing on how words shape worlds. This distilling process is particularly fertile on this volcanic land, which is a perfect double to certain not necessarily tamed territories between writing and drawing.

Installation

Works

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