Coming soon to Milan's Gallerie d'Italia a solo exhibition of Franca Ghitti's work.

At the Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza Scala, Milan, the solo exhibition Franca Ghitti: Altri Alfabeti. Sculptures, installations and works on paper, curated by Cecilia De Carli.

The exhibition will be developed in Room 16 of the Galleries and will present the articulated language of one of the most significant sculptors at the international level. An exhibition itinerary in which works from different periods, from the 1960s to the 2000s, collected under the title Altri Alfabeti (Other Alphabets) are interwoven. A new cycle of works, consisting of pages of papers and nails, have been created since the beginning of the new millennium. "By Other Alphabets I am referring to that inventory of signs, notches, knots, cup marks that I wanted to bring into my sculpture, aware that they represent a kind of specific language almost alternative to the alphabet used by sawyers, blacksmiths, carpenters, forge workers, millers, shepherds and farmers. Language therefore apt to demarcate a non-metropolitan, marginal civilization and at the same time to indicate a band of intercontinental correspondences," said the artist.

These “lost alphabets” create a universal language, taking cues from rock carvings, primitive symbols, objects from a craft world made of wood and iron wooden planks, sawmill leftovers, ancient forges, nails, melting powders, scraps from the metallurgical industries go to make up Franca Ghitti’s works, which narrate the strong bond between man and his territory, and between the artist and her homeland, Val Camonica.

Sculpture thus becomes an archive of the territory, the language through which to restore the memory of a community told by all these discarded and salvaged materials.

Among the works on display are Vicinie, freshly hewn silhouettes squeezed into wooden lattices, Bosco, a large installation in wood and iron, Meridiane, Pagine chiodate, Libri chiodati, Valigia di cartone, corda e chiodi.

Franca Ghitti’s language is essential and concrete, linked to lines and geometric forms.

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Image: Franca Ghitti, Bosco, early 1980s.

Coming soon to Milan's Gallerie d'Italia a solo exhibition of Franca Ghitti's work.

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