Carlo De Meo's Palindrome Exhibition BU at Fondazione Volume! in Rome

Carlo De Meo (born 1966 in Maranola) presents BU, a palindrome-themed exhibition at Fondazione Volume! in Rome, curated by Silvano Manganaro. The show, described as a palindrome, begins with a bow and moves to a bent man. The narrative path is mysterious, proceeding through iconological-textual units, focusing on letters, paronomasias, and specular homophones that engage the viewer in an operative optics. Forms and words initially appear in structured chaos, then in non-random order. The plurivocity of meanings drives an interpretive drift. Reality is not revealed but concealed, at most perforated. There are stretched silhouettes and hidden silhouettes. The exhibition's clue-based structure becomes an effective method to navigate one's own dark and fragmented reality with a reassuring echo: it's all a game. Altered furnishings recall Le Corbusier's objets à réaction poétique for their vividness and speech. An unexpected encounter occurs with one's own shadow in the dark, and with the other's shadow in full light. De Meo seems to convey a rationalité du désir to those who enter his inner treasure hunt. There are sidera (stars) and a hand reaching out.