mimesi
street
buio
Fontana
faccia
kitsch
fisso
aero
vagina
mandorla
infilare
bocca
vuoto
glow
meh
beh
gioia
Castellani
'50
gonfio
deserto

Cresciuti a Occidente - come conchiglie, scatole, grancasse - sul verbo essere - anima -, accordatore di tempi, figure agenti e astrazioni.
Eppure, al mondo, non tutte le lingue lo contengono. Declinandolo nomina, indica, tocca, spesso con leggerezza di poco tendente alla povertà.
Sulle due superfici tradizionali della pittura, Giovanni lo enumera in modo ironico, ma non troppo.

mimesis
track
dark
Fontana
face
kitsch
wink
puff
vagina
almond
tuck
mouth
empty
glow
hem
cloak
joy
Castellani
dribble swollen
sleepy

Development by accident - in vessels like shells, folded boxes, stretched skins - becomes intentional, animated in time, speaks through the creases of material ideas, suggesting softly figuring plump folds in abstract composition.
Are these expressions from our world? They whisper ancestry without worship. A dribble is also morphic language. What speaks? Open up. Slightly, poor grin.
Giovanni plays the optics of painting like a tight drum, perforating it with effect, lightly.

Giovanni Sortino, DITU, Exhibition views, 2016
Courtesy L'Ascensore