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Playing on the terms “word” and “world,” Gianluigi Colin, in the title of the exhibition, draws attention to the relationship between language and reality. What emerges is a gap—both semantic and conceptual—that brings together and contrasts historical memory and the present.
Through the reworking of images drawn from photographic archives and newspaper pages, Colin intervenes in perception: using both physical and digital collage, he creates layered visions that are the result of a multi-level narrative.
In the series Presente Storico, tradition and contemporaneity merge into a single dimension. The artist uses a photocopier to superimpose newspaper clippings onto works from art history, generating visual parallels that place past and present in dialogue.
The series Traps reflects on the combined power of word and image: newspaper pages are caught in mousetraps, yet what is truly captured are individual words—Love, Death, Web, Security, Facebook—symbols of contemporary society. Highlighted and isolated, these words reveal an intrinsic contradiction, transforming themselves into devices of capture.
Mitografie explores the process through which myths and icons are constructed, taking shape according to codes imposed by the systems of information and media, here evoked through the use of newspaper pages.
In Interferences, Colin uses images drawn from databases, captured in the moment of loading and therefore only partially visible. This fragmentation does not hinder communication; rather, it underscores the autonomous power of the image, capable of acting beyond its own content.
The exhibition is completed by a new, site-specific installation conceived for Luogo Pazzesco, inspired by the Duchampian principle of the readymade.
Gianluigi Colin (Pordenone, 1956) is an artist, journalist, and critic, and currently serves as cover editor of La Lettura, the cultural supplement of Corriere della Sera, where he also writes on art, photography, and visual communication.
Wor(l)ds | Gianluigi Colin
from April 29 to July 10, 2026
Metronom, Via Carteria 10|41121 Modena
