Lucio Riva

Lucio (1928-2014) lives and works in Modena in his home studio in "Via del teatro", a kind of Wunderkammer which, in the past, he opened the doors to show his works. Shy artist, he doesn't like galleries and private spaces very much. His life is inextricably intertwined with that of the objects among which he lives and which he assembles revealing their inner history. Thus objects, far from their usual use value, speak to us of themselves becoming for us a source of boundless wonder.

Even the notebooks, apparently written in the form of a diary, become objects, not only because they are studded with images, almost miniatures that accompany the text, but also because the very tiny writing itself becomes matter, a tiring trace of an almost lost meaning, scratched on the wall of the sheet, in an interior monologue, almost also secret from the artist.