At the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome all the art of Jago

Palazzo Bonaparte hosts JAGO. The Exhibition , the exhibition curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti, which for the first time brings together a series of works created to date by the artist, from sculpted river stones (from Memoria di Sé to Excalibur) to more recent monumental sculptures (such as Figlio Velato and Pietà), passing through less recent but more directly media-friendly creations such as the portrait of Pope Benedict XVI(Habemus Hominem).

Jago (Frosinone, 1987), skilled in the use of media with which he reaches his audience directly, through his live streaming and photo and video documentations tells the inventive process of each work, and the shared path allows a direct participation of his followers in the single executive step. In his works, he also uses tragic elements in a constant game of cross-references, with a vision always tending to the issues of the present, provocatively provoking in viewers reflections on the status of our times.

At Palazzo Bonaparte, the exhibition connotes the key elements of a work continually in fieri, capable of constant enrichment. After all, as he himself states his sculpture “is living language. Using a language does not mean copying it. I recognize myself in a language and adopt it: I feel the need to make a connection with what I see, without a spirit of emulation. I am myself. ”First testimony is the excavation on the large stones collected in the bed of a river on the slopes of the Apuan Alps, patiently excavated in the desire to tell a personal and human story. Pity and violence are intertwined in the artist’s gaze. There is the unhinged nudity of the Pontiff Emeritus, while the image of a Venus (2018), devoid of youthful venustance, aims to reflect on the symbolic value of beauty. And again, the presence of the Veiled Son (2019), a symbolic icon of timeless tragedies, to which is connected the intense meditation on pain, enclosed in the desolate monumentality of the Pieta (2021). Even earlier, the artist proposed a theme untethered from any relation to history, in replicating the sequence of the heartbeat in Circulatory Apparatus (2017).

Palazzo Bonaparte will also be transformed into an artist’s studio: during the months of the exhibition Jago will work on his next massive sculpture inside the exhibition venue. Special tours of the exhibition, led by Jago himself, will also be organized. The exhibition JAGO. The Exhibition is produced and organized by Arthemisia with the collaboration of Jago Art Studio. The event is recommended by Sky Arte.

At the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome all the art of Jago

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