Catalog of the exhibition “A Line, Montale, and Something Else,” featuring a new text by Griffa: “Three Steps from Domination to Disorder”
The volume opens with a new text by Giorgio Griffa, in which he briefly outlines his reinterpretation of key signs from the 20th century. It then continues with “In the Footsteps of Orpheus, Across Music and Connections,” a dialogue between the two curators. The eight stages of the exhibition are then covered, featuring a selection of quotes from Griffa’s writings to shed light on their interpretation and open up new perspectives.
The catalog documents the fortunate encounter between Giorgio Griffa and Miradolo Castle and the assonances, resonances, and delicate connections it prompted between his work and the stately interiors of the castle and its age-old park.
Connections born from the sensitivity conveyed by Griffa’s words, quoted on the back cover: “Instead of dominating matter, the painter places himself at its service, interacting with the intelligence of painting, with its age-old memory, considering that the arts are not an invention of nature but of humankind, and painting is at least as old as the thirty-five-thousand-year-old Chauvet cave.”
