Giovanni Gaggia

"The search for Gaggia, initially, has shunned the performative practice of body art that has as its ultimate goal the full expression of the self through the body to reclaim their right to "be". At first this intervention on the body is not catalyzed directly on the skin and flesh of man or animal, but on the reproduced images, and are mediated by photography, moving all the time, "the auction of the compass" from the organic to the inorganic, by a body mentioned (as in the case of works created by the epitaphs) a real body (the dying children in Baghdad, or the body of the ego-directed artist)."Taken from Aphorisms sympathetic by Chiara Canali.

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "Aphorisms sympathetic" Giovanni Gaggia (29 November 2008 – 6 January 2009).