Description

In this striking work, Giorgio Stocco composes a dance between image, text, and color. On a double-page spread from an old dictionary (printed and glued to the canvas), the artist paints a ballerina in full motion, smiling, embodying grace and lightness. The typographic background becomes both stage and decor, where each printed word seems to participate in the ballet.

The dancer's dress, made up of red and turquoise diamond patterns, evokes a harlequin's costume, a symbol of elegance and playfulness. Around her, a shower of petals in red, turquoise, and black literally explodes onto the page, blending dynamism and poetry. This profusion of color breaks the rigidity of the printed text and evokes a joyful liberation of artistic expression.

With this work, Stocco explores the contrast between structure (the dictionary, a tool of definition and framework) and freedom (movement, color, dance), thus giving a second life to a forgotten page by transforming it into a scene of emotion.