Nunzio's large-format works (200 x 100 cm and 100 x 100 cm) find a distinctive trait in the use of black and white: a chromatic minimalism which the artist uses to create apparently elementary figures and signs , but characterized by sophisticated relationships and internal codes, capable of defining a space that seems to expand or contract from time to time, also thanks to the vibration given by the shades of charcoal. In Giuseppe Pietroniro's works, drawing, photographic image and collage contribute to the creation of both concrete and abstract scenarios, in which the insertion of elements such as aluminum and other metal alloys gives a strong three-dimensional effect. Dominated by intuitive perspective rules, Pietroniro's works stand out for their mixed composition, between taking reality and pure sign invention. Finally, Josephine Baker's works go in the direction of a figuration, but anything but descriptive. The scenarios of her works are on the border between dream and dystopia, characterized by bright, vibrant, sometimes acid colors; the internal organization of these images has an almost architectural quality, regulated however by completely paradoxical rules which see the co-presence of artificial elements and hypotheses of natural landscapes, often prefigurations of traumatic and anything but reassuring events.
The title of the exhibition, thin thickness, alludes to the support common to all the works on display, paper, highlighting a physical property (thinness, in fact); the term "thickness", at the same time, refers to a volumetric dimension, to the idea of an extension and to the search for another spatiality, aspects that unite the research of the three artists. The friction between the two terms that form the title, almost oxymoronic to each other, thus becomes a useful clue to trace the possible points of contact between Baker, Nunzio and Pietroniro, favoring the coexistence of the works (most of which produced for the occasion) without however denying the autonomy and distinctive features of the individual poetics of the authors.
