ANDREA MARTINUCCI: OPEN SCRIPT

October 5th - 8th 2022

Open Script is a moment of recollection of what Andrea Martinucci elaborated and explored as part of his residency period at IUNO. At the same time, it is an overview of his research dedicated to the emotional value of the object, the fragmentary character of memory, and the need and impossibility of a systematic archiving of the past.
Through videos, paintings and documents, the presentation aims to provide an account of the gradual rupture of every linguistic and expository code implemented by Martinucci through the use of a constant overlapping of temporal and expressive lines.
The works in the series Open Script (2022) are comparable to small disassembled books, only partially readable, conceived as ideal extensions of IUNO's library. Made from scraps of previously painted canvases, the works seem to materialize that partiality and arbitrariness inherent in memories: the personal and collective stories pinned by the artist on their surface are the object of a voluntary omission, enacted through folds on the fabric and layers of color.
Turbomondi – materiale contro la paura e la voglia della perdita, the archive of the project started by Martinucci in 2020 and conceived as a film script in continuous becoming that records voices, impressions, traces of existence, went through a translation processes by the artist and curators Lisa Andreani and Maria Vittoria Di Sabatino, together with Ilaria Gianni and Cecilia Canziani over the course of the residency. The work attempted to safeguard sounds and omissions from the text, which are considered an integral part of the particular writing process that characterizes the project.
Il video Turbomondi (Melodia) (2021) is a true transposition into movement of the universe contained in the script, as well as the most complete expression of the animistic vision that seems to inform all of Martinucci's artistic production.
The fragmentary nature of the compositions and languages, the impossibility of an integral reading of words and images, contributes to the generation of a sense of precariousness and uncertainty common to every human manifestation, also expressed at this juncture through the desired short duration of the exhibition.

A limited edition fanzine was printed for the occasion, recounting the most important moments of the workshop, which the artist conducted in collaboration with Giulia Gaibisso.