In his solo show, Michele Tiberio, a young Sicilian artist who studied at Royal College of Art and Imperial College of London, displays sculpture as a manipulation of form and materials, while searching for the historical dialogue between matter and space in order to represent a new vision of reality.
"(...) perhaps the whisper was born before the lips" is the end of a path throughout which Tiberio respectfully and patiently observed everything around him and also listened to himself. In both cases, he examined processes of knowledge, which gradually led to the exploration of a language capable of depicting his initial thoughts.
The exhibition displays a series of cement sculptures with inserts made either of iron, cement, copper, or plastic (PET). They are born of selection processes and the manipulation of materials that have a symbolic or mnemonic value.
Following the Arte Povera matrix, Michele Tiberio frees his interior world through the connection with materials, charging it with a structural complexity equivalent to the density of his personal memory.
Introspective research becomes a privileged space in which to create a story that has a precise cultural structure and is able to experiment with new languages of identity, and in which the past and the future of a young man on the threshold of adulthood collide and merge.

Opening: October 26th at 6:30 pm

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