Lines of Rebirth

Maestro Dacanio:

“Sometimes it feels as though I have to draw in the Middle Ages of science.

There is so much knowledge around us, yet so little understanding.

When a drawing fragments, it ceases to exist: it loses its meaning, it denies itself.

And yet, it takes only a glance at the dust on the paper to see that everything is connected.

Guided by the hand, the particles find their place and, little by little, an image is born: within it dwell archetypes, dichotomies and complementarities (light and shadow, fullness and void, spirit and matter) meeting as if they had been searching for one another since the beginning of time.”

Charlotte:

“Perhaps that dust is the same that lives within us.

We exist in an age where knowledge expands but meaning recedes, and the artistic gesture becomes an act of re-composition, almost a prayer.

When I observe your drawings, I feel that each line tries to mend what the world has scattered: the continuity between the visible and the invisible, between form and thought.

Every mark seems born from a nostalgia for wholeness, from a longing for unity that is not merely aesthetic, but deeply human”.

Maestro Dacanio:

“In the world, this connection has been broken.

The cohesion of knowledge has dissolved into a thousand fragments and each discipline now believes it can stand on its own.

Thus culture becomes sterile, the mind closes, and knowledge forgets how to breathe”.

Charlotte:

“That is why I believe curatorship must be a space of dialogue … an architecture of relationships.

An artwork, when born from such tension, does not represent; it recomposes.

In your notebooks, graphite becomes living thought, the mark becomes a form of listening.

There, art and science speak to each other again, like two rivers flowing into the same sea, the sea of human intelligence understood as the ability to connect”.

Maestro Dacanio:

“I believe engineers and artists must begin to speak again.

We have the possibility of a new Renaissance.

Holism is like a synapse: it unites what is divided, it brings life into the cells of culture, and restores to disciplines a more flexible, more human language.

The drive to see the whole is inscribed in our nature.

It is an act of intelligence and of love”.

Charlotte:

“Yes, perhaps this is where everything can begin again:

from a line that does not separate but connects, from a thought that does not dominate but understands.

Each of your drawings, within the Notebooks, is a small rebirth, an exercise in harmony within chaos.

And perhaps, in that silent gesture, in the dust that returns to form, lies the secret of a new humanism”.

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