Raw Data: the etchings of Miriana Pino on display in Carrara

From Oct. 26 to Nov. 9, 2024, the young Apulian artist Miriana Pino, class of 1992, is the protagonist of the exhibition Raw Data on view in Carrara at Vôtre Spazi Contemporanei. In the exhibition, the artist displays a number of her etchings (as well as two matrices), in which explores the complexity of visual codes, inviting visitors to become active participants in the discovery of the artwork. In each of her engravings, inspired by ancient tables and calculating instruments, Miriana Pino delves into the interpretive possibilities of graphic art, creating an ambiguous relationship between viewer and content. The visitor is thus called to go beyond the immediate aesthetic fascination to reach a level of deep understanding, in a path that leads to knowledge through signs, lines and forms.

Engraving, which the artist employs as an eternal and independent expression, becomes in his work the central node of an ideational and conceptual interweaving. The engraved signs, far from being univocal, constitute a starting point for a plurality of references, composing a system of relationships between aesthetics, narrative and interpretation.

The logic of forms: rationality and harmony

Miriana Pino’s art is characterized by the tension between free and at the same time controlled forms that, once engraved on the matrix, find an autonomous dimension on paper. The images, made of sharp, intentional marks, take on a life of their own, transforming themselves into “strange attractors,” as Silvia Papucci observes, that stand in constant dialogue with memory and the present.

“Miriana Pino’s lyrical world,” Papucci writes in her text for the exhibition, “is populated by grids, lines and shapes that combine to create chords or counterpoints to be transformed into images thanks to the engraved matrix. [...] A search that feeds on ancient knowledge that the artist encounters and studies carefully to repropose them in her engravings, translating them into an opportunity to remember and rediscover cultural aspects that are eternal but today risk being as precious as they are hidden. Miriana elaborates the themes to take them out of their context of reference, to open them to other possibilities and comparisons: the communication diagrams do not formally want to clarify anything, the Galilean calculating instruments actually measure sequences both logical and random (while maintaining their precious guise), and the diagrams do not and correspond only to astronomical calculations but also to pages of books, music or streams of thought. A deliberate contradiction in terms, hers, which is, in my opinion, the pivot and beauty of the work. Pino interprets and investigates, or simply pays homage to, concepts always attributing to them a personal point of view, critical current c above all futuristic; where respect and knowledge of technique and tradition are indispensable, where only through this, exegesis becomes possible. We do not find cozy emotional or decorative images, aimed at seducing the viewer with pathos; instead, we find open slits so as to protect concepts but inviting us to look far to see new hypotheses and stimulate our critical thinking, without claims of aesthetic gratification confirmations.”

According to Mimmo Coletti’s thinking, Miriana Pino’s artistic journey is described as a journey toward a meditative intelligence that is nourished by silence and discipline. Pino’s art, close to polyphony and musical composition in rigor and precision, develops on paper etchings with an almost Bachian flavor. Counterpoints, cadences and aesthetic theorems constitute a language that reveals itself slowly, like a “visual poem” where chiseled lines become grooves and traces, capable of revealing the internal logic of forms. “Miriana happily has come to isolate herself from the noises and questions of the outside world, carves out a privileged place for herself in the silence of meditation, builds architectures from the objects of technique, writes poems of beating graphisms, drafts an arcane polyphony enhanced by the sign, by rarefied cadences, even dodecaphonic movements, a cowed dance, daughter of compositional rigor,” Coletti writes.

With Raw Data, Miriana Pino invites to a profound experience where the graphic sign is transformed into a universal and meditative language, capable of revealing new possibilities of reading and interpretation, opening the door to a universe rich in visual and logical implications.

The exhibition remains open Thursday through Saturday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. For information or to visit the exhibition at other times call 338 4417145.

Raw Data: the etchings of Miriana Pino on display in Carrara

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