“Alfabeti & Memorie” Rosetta Berardi & Maeda Kamari
Cesena | Italy

 

 

Alfabeti & Memorie, curated by Arch. Andrea Pompili brings together Rosetta Berardi and Maeda Kamari in the 19th-century Church of Santa Cristina in Cesena. The exhibition is part of Cosmografie & Alfabeti, a curatorial program exploring the visual and symbolic power of the world’s alphabets and calligraphy.

On the main floor, Berardi’s works transform letters drawn from different writing systems into abstract, symbolic forms, where language dissolves into image. In the crypt, Maeda Kamari’s shodō explores calligraphy as gesture and presence, freeing signs from linguistic meaning and revealing them as pure form.

The installation includes eight ceramic plates with kanji and the Prayer of Peace, a large-scale ink work documenting a live performance. Together, the exhibition creates a dialogue between cultures and writing systems, where the alphabet becomes both meaning and abstraction.