” LIVING WORDS – THE DNA OF A LITERARY TEXT”

© Ivan Cangelosi, 2024

100 x 80 cm

Ink on paper

Technique – Handwriting

 

DESCRIPTION

This work depicts an image made of 188,213 vertical lines of 21 different colors (corresponding to the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet) and 9,132 horizontal gray lines. Each colored vertical hatch has been associated with a letter of the alphabet (for example, the letter “U” has been associated lilac, the letter “R” with red, etc.). The alternation of colored lines therefore corresponds to the alternation of the letters of the alphabet in a word, so that, for example, the line fuchsia (associated with the letter “P”) followed pink (the letter “A”), black (the letter “N”) and light green (the letter “E”) lines, forms a group of 4 lines corresponding to the word “PANE“ (Bread).

The 1,889 horizontal gray lines, interposed between groups of colored vertical lines, correspond to the punctuation marks.

Through this coded system of colored lines, I have transcribed the entire text of the story “The Adventures of Pinocchio”. This work, therefore, depicts the image resulting from the codified transcription of Collodi’s entire story. It is, in a certain sense, the DNA of the text, the authentic image produced by the text itself, based on the letter-color assignment made preliminarily.

The letter-color pairing is not arbitrary but responds to a personal grapheme-color synesthesia.

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THE GENIUS – 2024
DEAD WORDS – SEMANTIC RESURRECTIONS
LIVING WORDS – THE DNA OF A LITERARY TEXT
ACTION DRAWING (Random Lines)
GOING AROUND IN PALERMO (BALLARO’) – 2024
THREE HUNDRED SECONDS (The multidirectional flow of time) – 2023
SIX HUNDRED SECONDS (The multidirectional flow of time) -2023
TEMPOGRAMME – 2023
ON THE ROAD (W.O.M.P. Series) – 2023
JUMP (W.O.M.P. Series) 2023
WOMP – Series (Conflicts) – 2023
FLYING INTO THE FUTURE – 2023
RESCUE – 2023
EPTACROM – BALANCE THROUGH HARMONIC DIFFERENCES
THE FLOWING OF TIME – VIENNA, 1996-2022
LIFETIME – ILLUSION OF FREEDOM – 2022
LIFETIME – THE LAST PART OF ME
THE TALENTED AND THE ENVIOUS
THE FLOWING OF TIME – ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN ONE SECOND
THE FLOWING OF TIME – HEARTBEAT – 2022
THE FLOWING OF TIME: THE INSTANT – 2022
THE PLAGUE – 2021
I BETTER GO HOME – 2021
UTOPIA – 2021
ILLUSION OF FREEDOM – 2021
THE PETITION AGAINST VAN GOGH – 2021
MEMORIES – 2021
MORS TUA LAETITIA MEA – 2020
VIENNA PANDEMIC – 2020
VIENNA PANDEMIC – U3 “Volkstheater” – 2020
SOLITUDES – 2020
LA RONDE (REIGEN) – 2020
NO WAY OUT – 2020
ADIEU – 2020
WHO WE WERE, WHO WE ARE, WHO WE’LL BE – 2020
EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS – 2020
THE BARON IN THE TREES – 2019
FAMILY LIFE – 2019
THE LITTLE PRINCE (Private collection) – 2019
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY – 2019
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – THE OLD HARBOUR IN PALERMO – 2018
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY (Private collection) – 2018
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – 2018
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Private collection) – 2018
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – 2018
TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD – 2017
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE – 2017
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH SILVER JACKET – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH PASSION FLOWER – 2017
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SICILY – 2017
PORTRAIT OF ADRIANA FRANZA – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH PENS – 2017
WIND OF BULLSHIT – 2017
ECCE HOMO (Selfportrait) – 2017
SELFPORTRAIT WITH GREEN HAT – 2017
DON GIOVANNI IN SICILIA – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH BLUE SCARF – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH GREEN SCARF – 2016
DISSOLUTION 1 – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH WOOL CAP – 2016
SELFPORTRAIT WITH PANAMA – 2016
THE TRIAL – 2016
TRIBUTE TO VINCENT VAN GOGH (Sunflowers) – 2015
THE DIVINE COMEDY – PARADISE – 2015
LA CORDA PAZZA (SICILITUDINE) – 2015
THE ART OF BEING HAPPY (Private collection) – 2015
THE ART OF KNOWING YOURSELF (Private collection) – 2015
BUDDENBROOKS (Museum of the writing and the sign – Turin) – 2015
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA – 2014
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA – 2014
The Italian Constitution (Collection of the Presidency of the Italian Republic) – 2014
METAMORPHOSIS (Private collection) – 2013
REFLEXES OF ME
THE LITTLE PRINCE (Version 1 – Private collection) – 2012
THE DIVINE COMEDY – HELL – 2012
ANIMAL FARM – 2011
NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND (Private collection) – 2010
IL GATTOPARDO – 2009
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Version 1) – 2009
1984 – 2009
DUBLINERS – 2008
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Private collection) – 2008
THE PROTOTYPE (Crime and Punishment – Volume 1) – 2008