MIART 2023

Frittelli arte contemporanea is pleased to announce its participation in MIART 2023 with a exhibition (HALL 3 - BOOTH A114) dedicated to the artist, visual poet and performer Tomaso Binga.

The project, entitled Tomaso Binga. Parole abitate, is conceived in continuity with the exhibition of the same name curated by Raffaella Perna last autumn in the gallery spaces. A dialogue between the most recent series created between 2019 and 2022 - Alfabeto poetico monumentale, AlphaSymbol - and works from the 1970s - including Scrittura arrampicata, Esse sono and F,T,O - that explores the relationship among body, language and identity.

Tomaso Binga, born Bianca Pucciarelli, adopted a male pseudonym to denounce the discrimination suffered by women in the art world. From the outset, her research has addressed the materiality of the word and also the language as means of constructing an active female subjectivity. 

In the series Alfabetiere murale o Scrittura vivente, developed in 1976, the artist re-appropriated verbal communication by having herself photographically portrayed while composing the letters of the alphabet with her own body. A reflection on the power of language that returns in the series Alfabeto poetico monumentale, in which Binga models words with polystyrene letters that reproduce her real height (1.60 m), giving life to verbal sculptures that challenge, also in the choice of support, the canons of the monument seen as a privileged field of expression of male predominance over the world.

As Raffaella Perna writes: "Binga returns to explore the iconic nature of writing and to emphasise the visual qualities of the word: in her research, yesterday and today, the alphabet takes on body and becomes, first and foremost, image".

On this occasion, the performative declination of Binga's work is also emphasised, contextualised within a general phenomenon of redemption of non-verbal communication and denunciation of all forms of subjugation and exploitation typical of the 1970s through the juxtaposition with works by artists such as Ketty La Rocca, Libera Mazzoleni and Gina Pane.