GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI | anatra muta
about.
Birds sing, well or badly.
I sing badly.
The mute duck falls silent.
Boxes of colours and cards that aren’t mine scream.
The tape that binds them pops after a year.
Monochromatic backgrounds and golden stripes and pastels.
What a miracle!
For years, everything that he had once locked up in large cardboard boxes comes out. With the discipline of an amanuensis he spreads colours over preprepared paper (almost always small in size): striped and monochromatic areas emerge. He overlays the latter in groups of three, thus setting the stripes free. He doesn’t always show the painted face – it isn’t always painted; often it is just different pieces of paper of different textures laid one on top of the other. At other times he finds pieces that have already been painted, in grey, blue, white, or very occasionally, black. He calls them Madonnas. He finishes off the rolled paper with pastels, gold leaf and watercolours, then rolls them up again; only a single flap remains visible. It reminds one of a study for a fresco in which the Virgin, intimidated by the angel’s annunciation, shelters behind a column.
artist.
for a more complete artist profile, see the artist page.
more exhibitions.
more exhibitions by GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI
perlepie
november 10th, 2022 - january 2022
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
group show
may 27th, 2021 - october 2, 2021
BUON DOMANI - A BETTER TOMORROW
group show
december 9th, 2010 - january 29th, 2011
GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI
SHE DEVIL: brava - special edition for christmas
december 17th, 2009 - january 16th, 2010
GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI
so it goes
november 37th, 2009 - january 17th, 2009
ANABLEPS
group show
march 9th - april 28th, 2000
GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI
cielospettacolo
january 26th - february 24th, 1996
PALLE
group show
december 10th, 1993 - january 1994
GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI
tête à tête
november 5th - december 5th, 1992
more catalogues.
more catalogues by GIAN DOMENICO SOZZI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
exhibition catalogue
SSM, rome 2021
ANABLEPS
catalogue of the exhibition
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome 2000