Seletti Wall mirror Black Wood. Dimensions: Ø 70 cm – Thickness 5 cm.
The artist Nico Vascellari was born in 1976 in Vittorio Veneto, Italy, where he
lives and works. He mixes his experiences as a punk musician and his extensive
research to provoke reflection and offer an interactive, multiple, immersive
form of contemporary art. Oscillating between installation, sculpture and
performance, his experimental work is inspired by a vast repertoire of
iconographic and iconological elements drawn from history, science, art,
anthropology and popular tradition.For Seletti, contemporary artist Nico
Vascellari has created a series of screen-printed mirrors with the theme of
games and, more precisely, the anagram, which involves switching around the
letters of a starting word to obtain a new one which takes on another meaning
once the letters are reversed. Since Antiquity, the anagram has come down the
centuries, drawing the attention of men of letters, linguists, poets, as well as
alchemists and lovers of mysteries of all kinds, interested in the issue of the
sacred in language and the hidden meaning of words.On the glass of the
Connection mirrors are printed anagrams that explore certain aspects of Nico
Vascellari's work, which are opposition, contrast, play and the double. Nico
Vascellari had fun resonating the meanings of the words Dream and Merda, as well
as the words Resist and Sister. The result? Fun mirrors where everything
collides, establishing particularly symbolic correspondences between words. The
new words obtained resonate like an echo of the original words. Subversive and
provocative, the association of the words Dream and Merda can be linked to the
Punk ideology so dear to Nico Vascellari and his No future close to nihilism.
The semantic link between the words Resist and Sister sounds like an
encouragement to the struggle of women campaigning for gender equality and
rights.The idea of duplicity, of double dealing is reinforced by the very object
on which the anagrams take place: mirrors whose reflections duplicate reality,
multiplying points of view in the same plane. The result is a playful escape
from reality, subverting everyday objects.Nico Vascellari has enjoyed numerous
personal exhibitions, at the Macro (Rome), the Marina Abramovic Institute (San
Francisco) and the Museion (Bolzano). His work has also been shown at the Tate
Modern in London and at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
