LINGUA VIVA

Group show with Thomas Berra, Matteo Fato, Alessandro Fogo, GIulio Saverio Rossi

March/April 2022

Kappa Noun, Idice

Photo: Carlo Favero

Text curated by Antongiulio vergine

The very first sensation that LINGUAVIVA’s works would seem to convey is related to the sphere of listening as well as squaring. For while it is true, as John Berger wrote, that “the eyes [are] not simply the organs of optical perception, although they are also that,” it is also true that one does not necessarily have to rely on the other senses to be able to hear. It is a kind of synaesthetic mechanism that is triggered by the works in the exhibition, whereby one looks at them and also ends up listening to them, perceiving them. Corvino gets lost in his own explorations, initiated in the territories of memory and experience. His is an exotic, almost primitive language, marked by bright and colorful vibrations. Explicit and intimate at the same time, it is articulated through a kaleidoscope of phrases, images and numbers-one of the works consists of a tapestry, closer, therefore, to the sphere of drawing, though not far from that of painting. At any rate, the playful and extravagant figuration, the result of deliberately impossible, seems to result in a request to listen that goes beyond the horizons of the gaze.

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