“Arazzi di luce – la scrittura si fa immagine” Gianluca Bosi
Cesena | Italy

 

 

 

The exhibition “Arazzi di luce – la scrittura si fa immagine” (Tapestry of Light – Writing Becomes an Image) is part of the project “Cosmografie & Alfabeti” (Cosmographies & Alphabets) that is focused on the artistry of the “alphabets of the world”.

 

The unpublished works of the artist Gianluca Bosi (Cesena, 1991) are displayed in the Church of San Zenone, Cesena, presented to the public for the first time on this occasion. No human or animal figures, but only words, written on sheets of papyrus, to create an abstraction of forms in a silent language as an essential figurative expressive value. We are in the presence of an obsolete, yet mystical, art form, composed of intricate carpets and warped textures of words. An art assonant with the experimental dimension attributable to the ancient calligraphic forms dating back to the 15th century. The artist presents a monumental, evocative calligraphic work,

“Cosmografia biblica” (Biblical Cosmography), the largest calligram in the world (900 x 150 cm), the result of three years of work, together with others of smaller format. It is doubly significant that in the Church of San Zenone a particular art such as this is celebrated today, capable of bringing artistic thought back to the sense of a meditative process such as that of the “calligram”, thus expanding the boundaries between religious faith and art, in a real fusion of art and life.