Titel: Praise of Normality at the time of Magna Grecia

Domenico Iaracà, Keramikos 2020, Museum Duca di Martina, Naples: “Taschini's faces are the continuation of a quest that has turned the human body into a palimpsest of codes and alphabets beyond time, through which to tell the stories lived by each individual. The faces are a summa of simultaneously individual and collective history. However, in a reversal of anachronisms, perhaps even typical of their expressive code, the marks on his face are not archaic. On the contrary, it is computer code that refers, as it were, to a dystopian future, in which man, every person, is part of a higher language. So here we are faced with a reversal of history, where the marks on our face are not so much traces of a more or less recent past, but impressions that we fear will be applied in a near or distant future. The idea of ??oppression and external limitation is further reinforced by the metal cage, which, as the supporting structure of the image, eventually acquires meaning itself."

Artist: Antonio Taschini

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Antonio Tashini about his work: Traces, signs, memory, transformation over time, layering, memory, occult languages, grids, plans, archaeology, architecture. Those are the main concepts that inspire my art. In my artistic search I mainly use ceramics, often contaminated by other materials (iron, rope). The surfaces of the three-dimensional objects I create serve to tell a story, as pages on which I can write or draw the images that bubble up in layered form from my interior, from the past, from observation of the places where we live ( the cities in which we humans leave our marks, our footprints), from observation of architectures that complement and intersect over time. The signs I use are always repeated in the same way, in infinite combinations, like letters of a hidden language, esoterically, like numbers in ritual formulas. I consider fundamental in my work the work ethic, that is, the dedication I place in everything I create with my hands and my personality, the taste of the composition and of the balance of form, the aesthetic value and feeling, the ability to radiate inner warmth. Clay, the material I use, I see in its archetypal form of a primordial element: not as a carrier of the work, but as part of it.