Genomism: When the Letter Becomes Visual DNA
At the foundation of my artistic research lies a question: can a single letter contain the origin of an image? From this reflection comes the ...
LETTERAL-MENTE: When the Letter Becomes Flesh and Memory. An Interview with Mattino Norba
What happens when the written word ceases to be merely a tool for reading and chooses instead to become body, volume, and shadow? On the ...
The Body of the Word
On April 21st, the space of the Tait Gallery in Berlin hosted a selection of my latest works: a visual investigation where figurative portraiture intimately ...
Faces made of words: identity and recognition
My faces do not seek resemblance, but recognition. They are inner maps built from the words that define us. Each portrait is a stratification of ...
The liturgy of the fragment: process and matter
My process is slow and ritualistic. Each letter is applied individually. Layer by layer, language becomes surface and crystallized memory. Metal and resin make fragile ...
Beyond Lettrism: why Genomism generates
Genomism does not belong to historical Lettrism. Where Lettrism fragmented language, Genomism condenses it. Letters accumulate until they generate recognizable forms. Language is not destroyed, ...