Paper version of the Unique work on paper entitled ‘Kàtagma’ that is part of the private collection of Museo Materiali Minimi d’Arte Contemporanea (MMMAC) of Paestum – Capaccio (SA).
Kàtagma in Greek language means ‘fracture’ and identifyies a clear symbol of opening as well as an inspiration source of some personal meditation about the ancient process of antithesis between ‘fysi-nomos’.
This concept is expressed through the unification of different compositional elements such as the red line, the grey wing, the yellow car and the orange background.
This artwork was born as one of several preparatory sketches made by the artist for a larger canvas based on the same inspirational source and compositional structure, but evolved and concluded as a unique piece.
With the ‘Sophistry’ movement (2nd half of the 5th century) term Physis (Greek translation of Nature) takes on a political value, giving rise to what is nowadays conventionally defined as the antithesis Physis/Nomos.
The nomos, understood as a positive law of the Polis, thus defines the identity of a population through the structural compendium of habits and customs, becoming distant and often detached from the urban context.
Katagma, this fracture, is that which exists between natural entities (physis) and the so-called western civil laws. (nomos)