Take home an extraordinary work by Maestro Emilio Isgrò!

Acrylic on book in wooden and plexiglass box, 58 x 73 cm, 1999.

"The Solemnity of All Saints, as my work is titled, is a celebration that concerns all Italians, believers and non-believers.

The collective unconscious of our country, in fact, is an eminently Catholic unconscious, and for an artist who programmatically shuns any exclusive or excluding form of art, it is not only natural but almost indispensable to draw on it" - Emilio Isgrò

Emilio Isgrò, artist, novelist, poet and journalist, has made erasure his own poetics since the mid-1960s with his adhesion to the environment of Visual Poetry, from which he distanced himself a few years later by developing a personal and autonomous language .

He transformed an initial provocative gesture into a coherent language and made it his own vision of the world. Erasing for him is not a metaphorical act: he operates on the texts with real 'covers', which transform and renew their meaning, without annihilating and destroying the value of the word and, starting from the 1980s, of the image. By deleting newspapers, posters and books, Isgrò is not making a gesture of rebellion, but rather places the emphasis - as one of the first books canceled in 1965 states - on "what everyone would like to ignore": the first of words, their physical and objectual.

Courtesy Emilio Isgrò Archive