Manualità
Manual skills, manual character of a job, ability to use hands.
When I think of this word, I feel a certain uneasiness because I never want it to lose its enormous significance and its value in creating objects, works of art - including even writing itself, a skill that is increasingly neglected and supplanted. Knowing how to do things well for your own pleasure, a simple and rigorous rule of life, has allowed the development of highly refined techniques and the birth of modern scientific knowledge by creating artists, engineers, architects, goldsmiths and violinmakers who combined material knowledge with manual skill
Mind and hand work together reinforcing each other, one teaches the other and vice versa. In my work, the reflection on the word "manual" led me to play on it using my fingerprints, the extreme part of my hands. An essential and gestural act consisted of soaking my fingers in hot wax and then removing the wax like a second skin. I used the ancient technique of lost wax to cast the resulting fingerprints in bronze, to be arranged and positioned on a wall. My research invites contemporary society to reflect on the importance of the word itself without activating any nostalgic controversy.
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