Daniela Bertol's 'Archetipi e Armonie' at Galleria Unicorno, Rome

The Galleria Unicorno in Rome, an octagonal space near Trinità dei Monti, hosts Daniela Bertol's exhibition 'Archetipi e Armonie' curated by Silvia Bordini and Diletta Borromeo. Bertol (Rome, 1958) is an artist, architect, and designer who moved to New York in 1986. Her work, centered on new technologies, now includes Land Art and performance. The exhibition features a large icosahedron with a Vitruvian Man, referencing Platonic solids and the golden ratio. Bertol's doctoral thesis 'Form Mind Body Space Time: The Geometry of Human Movement' explores these concepts. The icosahedron serves as a performance space and daily movement practice, inspired by Rudolf Laban's dance geometry. Bertol discusses using movement as therapy after a traumatic divorce and domestic violence, linking it to Husserl's epoché and Descartes' cogito. Her practice includes 'Finding the Axis Mundi', a movement sequence connecting body, geometry, and spirituality. Recent works transition from digital to physical objects via rapid prototyping technologies like laser cutters, CNC, and 3D printers, reflecting the maker movement. Mathematical forms like spirals and logarithmic curves mirror natural patterns such as Fibonacci phyllotaxis and nautilus shells. These forms also inform her meditative practice, connecting to Jungian mandalas.