Antonio Della Guardia's Neon Alphabet Deconstructs Power at Tiziana Di Caro

Antonio Della Guardia (Salerno, 1990) presents his first solo exhibition, La luce dell’inchiostro ottenebra, at Tiziana Di Caro gallery in Naples. The show draws on Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life to critique how language perpetuates societal power structures. Twenty-six neon graphemes, each belonging to a different politician and deliberately difficult to recognize, line a wall. This alphabet is applied to a rewriting of Dante's Divine Comedy, using graphological techniques to expose the dialectical relationships between language and society. Parodied behavioral and gestural rules of the perfect manager serve as a backdrop for a typical black office chair, whose backrest and rocking-chair legs empty power of its credibility.