OPENING TALK
February 2024
Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934, Borgofranco d’Ivrea; d. 2023, Turin) began his career as an artist in Italy in the 1960s. The revelatory experience he lived on the summit of Stromboli volcano one morning in 1965 radically influenced his work. When the sun’s early rays just peeking over the horizon cast their shadows on the immensity of the sky, the artist became aware that he was an integral part of an infinite, ever changing universe. Since then, Anselmo focused his interest on the order and cyclical course of natural phenomena, so that the energy, space, time, orientation, magnetic fields, or gravitational forces became recurring themes in his production. Using existing materials, Anselmo created pieces that actively and perceptibly present both the latent energy surrounding us here and now and the incommensurate nature of the dynamics governing the cosmos. His works are located at a fascinating frontier between the visible and the invisible.
