Enzo Cucchi

"Poetry and painting are identical; strangely, the problem is the same: it's a matter of iconography, of the image of the world. It's about capturing the image and instantly synthesizing it, in any way".

The exhibition "Antifragile" is a specific project by Enzo Cucchi for Colli, centered around the diptych "Untitled (Pound)," composed of ceramic inlays on concrete. This anti-memory work, dedicated to the great poet Ezra Pound, serves as the spatial and research focal point of the exhibition. "The artist does not need his work to be described; he needs air... even though he moves to draw solid and antifragile forms."

The consistent feature of the space defined by Cucchi is marked by "Radura," a ground-level ceramic sculpture, protruding and bulbous, a "paleolithic" piece of both vegetal and animal nature, with an antithetical form. The unstable perception of lines and their constant elusiveness from possible anatomies and morphologies fuels the threshold and anticipation of these types of works in which plasticity, sign, and composition coexist.

The antechamber that Enzo Cucchi establishes is the space of radiant work, lying horizontally yet not heavy, drawing from multiple disciplines: painting, sculpture, drawing, and environment. The exhibition is the reason for a book research that Cucchi is constructing around the work "Untitled (Pound)," with a significant core of iterative and "postural" drawings on the portrait of Ezra Pound.

A collection of drawings, fragments, and annotations for an artist's book published by Viaindustriae with the Colli publishing platform, to be presented during the exhibition.