“L’infinito commestibile – The Edible Infinite”
14.05.2015 – 16.06.2015

This exhibition is Marco Di Giovanni’s first solo show in Turkey. This exhibition will be a part of a project he creates in three different locations. Artist has two other exhibitions in Italy at the same time with BLOK art space: Museo San Domenico and BeCube in Imola, Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea in Saronno.

One part of the BLOK art space is lined with an accumulation of Moleskine diaries: the work is entitled Gran Sasso. Moleskine agendas are installed open on a design drawn in pencil which constructs, in the ensemble, a very light representation of the skyline from the Gran Sasso seen from Teramo, the birthplace of Marco Di Giovanni. “I confuse in pencil the contours of the entire world and its division into time zones to reach the only place that is original to me and therefore timeless,” says the artist.

In the the main room there is a complex installation, in the form of a visual diary, a meticulous record of all that the artist has ingested in solid or liquid form in the last eleven months: The Edible Infinite.
From the 18th of May 2014 (the artist’s birthday) Marco Di Giovanni has begun to draw everything that he has ingested over the last year and will continue this process until the next 18th of May. The result of this performance expanded over the time is a large quantity of ink drawings on yellow food paper (mainly trattoria placemats).

A video will show in a long series all the designs the artists realized during the on year long performance, while the audio, made in collaboration with Gianluca Favaron “digital sound craftsman”, will play back, reworked on the computer, sounds obtained by recording the chewing, swallowing and digestion of the artist. Modern fatigue is hence summed up in this necessary nourishment of the body joint with the obsession generated by food itself: magazine publications on the topic, television programs in which the chef becomes the absolute leader and supreme, to the clicking food bloggers of Instagram. Food has become an obsession, has departed from what is nutrition for the body, thus implementing a relationship shift on the research and investigation of reality.