His work aimed at achieving a synthesis between painting and literature, through the entire transposition of the literary text within the perimeter of a painting, as well as the search for a purely aesthetic exaltation of the texture produced by handwriting, have engaged the artist for several years, constituting an important exercise in technical consolidation in his creative work. The evolution that followed this research led the artist back to issues and concepts close to his humanistic education, almost necessarily imposing an artistic path dedicated to the depiction of speculations of a social and philosophical nature. This path has led, almost naturally, to a stylistic choice which suits to both representation of reality (of the visible world), as well as of theoretical contents and abstract ideas, that is to say a “geometric” style. The rational and conscious choice of the geometric form as a means of representing the world and of what is the result of intellectual speculation, moves first of all from the intention to make the rational aspect prevail in his work, avoiding sentimental references, as well as redundancies and superfluous details which may result from a too formal adherence to the visible world. In this sense, any visible and tangible element can be symbolically represented by a geometric figure, not only because it can ideally summarize its shape (for example, a brown triangle can be the symbol of a mountain peak) but also because the shape of each visible and tangible object is the result of an ideal composition of points and lines distributed in a given space, since all the points and lines that make up the complex shape of a visible and tangible object are summarized in the simple geometric form.

All visible and tangible objects, therefore, can ideally be broken down and reduced to a single pure geometric shape that formally represents them all, a shape that can ideally be filled with different contents and meanings. From the symbolic point of view, in the works of Ivan Cangelosi, this content is represented by semantic handwriting.